Hi, I have a simple JSON query (to Facebook events) that contains smart quotes and other special characters that render badly in the browser. I've tried utf8::encode on the relevant field but that seems to wipe it out completely (it returns nothing).
code snippet:
use JSON qw( decode_json );
use LWP::Simple;
use utf8;
use strict;
my($url) = "https://graph.facebook.com/$id?access_token=" . $token;
my($json) = get($url);
my($decoded) = decode_json($json);
$event{'desc'} = utf8::decode($decoded->{'description'});
Without the utf8::decode I get all the description but with bad character rendering, e.g. "Action Films" (with smart quotes) looks like:
“Action filmsâ€
But again, the utf8::decode seems to wipe it out.
thanks, Scott
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