In the source (and the ref you provided mentions this) of Mojo::Util html_entities.txt is hardcoded. From this file's contents %Mojo::Util::ENTITIES is constructed. So, it looks to me that without changing the filename in Mojo::Util you will not achieve what you want.

However, this being Perl and this being Perlmonks, here is a workaround which should be applied to all script parts which use Mojo::Util;. This may not be surely is not practical.

Mojo::Util provides the wonderfully named monkey_patch() which you can use to alter the only sub therein which uses %ENTITIES, which is Mojo::Util::_entity. And make it use your own (EDIT: e.g. _entity2 which is identical to the original but it uses your locally defined %ENTITIES which you create as you see fit):

use Mojo::Util;
my $str = '<foo>bar<baz>&"';
my $res1 = Mojo::Util::html_unescape($str);

my %ENTITIES = (lt => '<<<', gt => '>>>');

Mojo::Util::monkey_patch 'Mojo::Util', _entity => \&_entity2;

my $res2 = Mojo::Util::html_unescape($str);

print "res1: $res1\n";
print "res2: $res2\n";


sub _entity2 {
  my ($point, $name, $attr) = @_;

  print "_entity2 called...\n";

  # Code point
  return chr($point !~ /^x/ ? $point : hex $point) unless defined $nam
+e;
  # Named character reference
  my $rest = my $last = '';
  while (length $name) {
    return $ENTITIES{$name} . reverse $rest
      if exists $ENTITIES{$name} && (!$attr || $name =~ /;$/ || $last 
+!~ /[A-Za-z0-9=]/);
    $rest .= $last = chop $name;
  }
  return '&' . reverse $rest;
}
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bw, bliako

Nice!!!

Here is another workaround, more practical and more down-to-earth:

In your project's dir I assume you have lib/ with all your mojo code. Create dirs lib/Mojo and lib/Mojo/resources . Copy original Mojo::Util in lib/Mojo/Util.pm . In my linux box I can do whichpm Mojo::Util and get /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32/Mojo/Util.pm (to install whichpm do cpanm -f App::whichpm). Copy /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32/Mojo/resources/html_entities.txt into lib/Mojo/resources/html_entities.txt and edit according to your needs. This will be what Mojo::Util will use as its html_entities.txt. That's the first part.

The second part is to modify your mojo-app script so that it looks for packages FIRST in your lib/ dir before anywhere else including the Mojolicious installation location. Mine looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = '0.01';

#ADD THIS before loading anything else
#adjust catdir so that it finds 'lib' from where THIS script resides
#mine is scripts/hero that's why I have the '..'
use FindBin;
use File::Spec;
use lib File::Spec->catdir($FindBin::Bin, '..', 'lib');
# or just use lib a constant path to avoid loading extra packages
#####

use Mojo::File qw(curfile);
use Mojolicious::Commands;

# Start command line interface for application
Mojolicious::Commands->start_app('Hero');
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The caveat is that your local Mojo::Util will not be updated when Mojolicious gets an update. But there are workarounds for this too, I am sure.

bw, bliako

PS: saw this post https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=11133963 but does not really address my issue

> saw this post https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=11133963

What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?

• -> [id://11133963]
• -> Mojo pp html_entities.txt

Cheers Rolf
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