Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi
i'm using CGI.pm to make a form script
and i would like to know how can i switch the page direction
to disply from right to left
and my other question is how to change the page encoding?
i'm just improting the standard module
waiting your answer ,
Thanks

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Re: some questions on cgi.pm
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 27, 2005 at 15:30 UTC

    If you're using CGI's document generating functions,

    Use start_html's -dir => 'rtl' parameter to specify right-to-left direction.

    Use header's -charset => '...' parameter to specify the character set. (In HTTP terms, encoding means something else, so I hope this is what you meant.)

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Re: some questions on cgi.pm
by phaylon (Curate) on Jul 27, 2005 at 14:50 UTC
    Haven't looked into CGI.pm lately, but the text-direction seems more like a (X)HTML issue to me.
    Also: What problems did you have with the docs at CGI?
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Re: some questions on cgi.pm
by friedo (Prior) on Jul 27, 2005 at 15:22 UTC
    You can set the character encoding with CGI's start_html method. For example, to use the Hebrew ISO-8859 codepage, 

    my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html( -encoding => 'iso-8859-8' );

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    You could also use UTF-8 which is probably more widely supported these days. The direction of the text display is up to the browser to handle properly and can't be controlled from your script.

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      That just sets the encoding for the XML prolog - it doesn't influence the HTTP Content-type, and under HTTP rules the Content-type trumps anything else for determining the character encoding. (See ikegami's comment for setting the HTTP header)
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