Re: A problem with dash typography

Hm, the correct numerical entity code for the em-dash is &#8212 ... otherwise —

It works for me with the correct character encoding in and out:

[12:04][nick:~/monks]$ perl -Mstrict -Mutf8 -MHTML::Entities -E '
binmode STDOUT,":utf8";
> say encode_entities("Chimney—sweeper");
> say encode_entities("Chimney–sweeper");
> say decode_entities("Chimney&#8212;sweeper");
> say decode_entities("Chimney&#8211;sweeper");
> '
Chimney&mdash;sweeper
Chimney&ndash;sweeper
Chimney—sweeper
Chimney–sweeper
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Hope this helps!

Edit: Decoded characters may not display properly here ...

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^2: A problem with dash typography by hsmyers (Canon) on Sep 09, 2015 at 15:03 UTC
Sorry about the typos...that aside I believe you have nailed the necessary magic with the ':utf8'...excepting in this case it is required before I read the file. Will see what happens, thanks! --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]
Re^3: A problem with dash typography by 1nickt (Canon) on Sep 09, 2015 at 16:03 UTC
If you put: `use utf8;` [download] at the top of the script, this tells Perl that your source code contains UTF8-encoded unicode characters. If you want to read and write UTF8, do this at the top of the script: `binmode STDIN, ':utf8'; binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';` [download] Hope this helps! The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: A problem with dash typography by hsmyers (Canon) on Sep 10, 2015 at 16:54 UTC
`use utf8;` is now in my new file template! And the change to STDIN is good, but what I need is a change to read IO in general... --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply] [d/l]