Dear monks,

HTML::Parser provides the HTML::Entities::_decode_entities method, which is the lower level peer of HTML::Entities::decode. I use it in my XML::Entities module to do the real work. However, it appears that older versions of HTML::Parser don't handle unicode entities.

use HTML::Parser;
$x = "ř";
HTML::Entities::_decode_entities($x, {});
print "$x\n";

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# outputs "ř" on 3.56
# outputs ř on 3.35

The changelog for HTML::Parser says that by version 3.39_90, the Unicode entities are always treated for perl 5.8+ and that it is "no longer a compile-time directive". However, I found nothing about a directive in the earlier versions.

So, my question is: How can I make the older versions of HTML::Parser treat unicode entities?

use strict; use warnings; print "Just Another Perl Hacker\n";

In reply to Decoding unicode entities with HTML::Parser by Sixtease

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