Re^3: JSON character encoding

Yes, both of those are just UTF-8. The trick is to put them in a form that your output device can handle. If you're in a terminal window, it might not to be able to display weird unicode characters like smileys. You might try something like this:

use Encode qw( encode FB_HTMLCREF );
print encode('ascii', $jsonstuff->{items}[0]{snippet}{description}, FB
+_HTMLCREF), "\n";
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You'll get "It’s" and "moment 😊", which are ugly, but should come out right if you put them in an html file.

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Re^4: JSON character encoding by Bman70 (Acolyte) on May 29, 2017 at 21:41 UTC
IT WORKED! Now all the little smileys, arrows, etc. show up in my final HTML output. Much thanks for the tip. I just put my final html content file through your encode process before outputting to web: `$pagecontent = encode('ascii', $pagecontent, FB_HTMLCREF);` p.s. for anyone reading this later: If you store your JSON data in a file, then you need to access it explicitly as utf8: `open(my $fh, '<:utf8', $filename)` I had to do this and use Anonymous Monk's FB_HTMLCREF process to finally get the emoticons to show.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: JSON character encoding
by Bman70 (Acolyte) on May 29, 2017 at 21:41 UTC

$pagecontent = encode('ascii', $pagecontent, FB_HTMLCREF);

p.s. for anyone reading this later: If you store your JSON data in a file, then you need to access it explicitly as utf8:
open(my $fh, '<:utf8', $filename)
I had to do this and use Anonymous Monk's FB_HTMLCREF process to finally get the emoticons to show.

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