#
# Copyright (c) - 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
#
-# $Id$
+#
#
package Spot;
my $otext = $text;
$text = Encode::encode("iso-8859-1", $text) if $main::can_encode && Encode::is_utf8($text, 1);
$text =~ s/^\+\w+\s*//; # remove leading LoTW callsign
- $text = pack("C*", map {$_ & 127} unpack("C*", $text));
$text =~ s/\s{2,}[\dA-Z]?[A-Z]\d?$// if length $text > 24;
- $text =~ s/[^\w]//g;
+ $text =~ s/[\W\x00-\x2F\x7B-\xFF]//g; # tautology, just to make quite sure!
$text = substr($text, 0, $duplth) if length $text > $duplth;
my $ldupkey = "X$freq|$call|$by|$text";
my $t = DXDupe::find($ldupkey);