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
$text =~ s/\s{2,}[\dA-Z]?[A-Z]\d?$// if length $text > 24;
$text =~ s/[\W\x00-\x2F\x7B-\xFF]//g; # tautology, just to make quite sure!
$text = substr($text, 0, $duplth) if length $text > $duplth;
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
$text =~ s/\s{2,}[\dA-Z]?[A-Z]\d?$// if length $text > 24;
$text =~ s/[\W\x00-\x2F\x7B-\xFF]//g; # tautology, just to make quite sure!
$text = substr($text, 0, $duplth) if length $text > $duplth;