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Re: Chinese site and decoded_content() trouble

by valdez (Monsignor)
on Jun 09, 2007 at 17:54 UTC ( [id://620206]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Chinese site and decoded_content() trouble

Ni hao :) It seems that the page you are requesting cannot be decoded properly; in fact if you add the raise_error parameter to decoded_content, you get an error. I used the following test program:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; use Encode qw/ is_utf8 /; my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my @tests = ( 'http://cn.life.dada.net/people/', 'http://www.sina.com.cn/', 'http://www.ku6.com/show/34D6sgY4X6w3YegR.html', 'http://www.xinhua.cn/', ); foreach my $uri (@tests) { eval { printf "test: %s\n", $uri; my $response = $agent->get($uri); my $dc = $response->decoded_content( raise_error => 1 ); printf "is decoded content utf8? %s\n", is_utf8($dc); }; if ($@) { print "decode failed: $@\n"; } print "\n"; }
You could try to force the charset used by adding charset parameter.

Ciao, Valerio

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Re^2: Chinese site and decoded_content() trouble
by isync (Hermit) on Jun 11, 2007 at 08:50 UTC
    Thanks for your comment! And thank you for pointing out the raise_error switch - which I wasn't aware of (rtfm...)!

    Running your test script gives me these errors:
    test: http://cn.life.dada.net/people/ is decoded content utf8? 1 test: http://www.sina.com.cn/ decode failed: euc-cn "\x82" does not map to Unicode at /usr/lib/perl/ +5.8/Encode.pm line 166. at test_ku6.pl line 22 test: http://www.ku6.com/show/34D6sgY4X6w3YegR.html decode failed: utf8 "\xE6" does not map to Unicode at /usr/lib/perl/5. +8/Encode.pm line 166. at test_ku6.pl line 22 test: http://www.xinhua.cn/ decode failed: euc-cn "\xA9" does not map to Unicode at /usr/lib/perl/ +5.8/Encode.pm line 166. at test_ku6.pl line 22
    which points me at the problem that decoded_content uses the wrong charset for decoding. (right?)

    A search on the issue led me to this helpful thread http://www.issociate.de/board/post/400895/Fetching_the_charset_when_set_in_meta..html and the non-cpan module HTTP::Response::Charset (which I haven't tried so far).

    So I am stuck here with three options:
    1. use Encode::Guess
    2. use HTML::Encoding
    3. use HTTP::Response::Charset

    A quick test seems to show that HTML::Encoding is the most reliable (and much less a hassle to install than Encode::Detect). Now I will try
    my $enco = encoding_from_http_message($resp); my $utf8 = decode($enco => $resp->content);
    But how do I combine it elegantly with LWP? (I am not a great module guru..)
    Is there a way to pull it into the LWP context and get, let's say, $response->as_utf8 (which is the result of the above)?

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