Re^2: Encoding problems

Here si the code that procudes and fills the contents of the drop down menu:

my @files = <../data/text/*.txt>;
my @display_files = map /([^\/]+)\.txt/, @files;

print br;
print start_form( action=>'index.pl' );
    print h1( {class=>'lime'}, "&#917;&#960;&#941;&#955;&#949;&#958;&#
+949; &#964;&#959; &#954;&#949;&#943;&#956;&#949;&#957;&#959; &#960;&#
+959;&#965; &#963;&#949; &#949;&#957;&#948;&#953;&#945;&#966;&#941;&#9
+61;&#949;&#953; => ",
                                popup_menu( -name=>'select', -values=>
+\@display_files ),
                                submit('&#917;&#956;&#966;&#940;&#957;
+&#953;&#963;&#951;'));
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As Ani from efnet told me maybe the OS i use (xp from MicroSuck) is so damn persisting on creating utf-8 file contents buu saving the filenames as iso-8859-7 instead!!!
What do you think folks?

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Re^3: Encoding problems by samtregar (Abbot) on May 17, 2006 at 21:58 UTC
Are you sure the rest of the data on your page is really UTF-8? Those "&#XXX" things you're outputting are HTML entities, NOT UTF-8. Also, what version of Perl are you using? -sam	[reply]
Re^4: Encoding problems by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2006 at 02:04 UTC
I think his browser convert his characters into HTML entities when he copied and pasted them into here. samtregar's observations make no sense if the OP had outputed entities.	[reply]
Re^5: Encoding problems by samtregar (Abbot) on May 18, 2006 at 05:51 UTC
Yeah, you're probably right. That samtregar guy sure is smart - I should listen to him more often. -sam	[reply]
Re^3: Encoding problems by samtregar (Abbot) on May 17, 2006 at 22:03 UTC
Actually, looking closer, I think your friend is right. If I tell Firefox to interpret the page as "Greek ISO-8859-7" then the select box looks a lot like a list of Greek words. I can't read Greek so it's hard to know for sure! Try using something like Unicode::Map8 (old-school) or Encode (new-school) to go from ISO-8859-7 to UTF-8. -sam	[reply]
Re^4: Encoding problems by Nik (Initiate) on May 17, 2006 at 22:10 UTC
Yes if you view it from broswer as freek its lloks fine but then all other tetxt looks reversed. :) Is there a way to convert to utf-8 all my greek .txt filenames? a utility perhaps? Can you please suggest me how i should do this encodign change you described? Thank you	[reply]
Re^5: Encoding problems by samtregar (Abbot) on May 17, 2006 at 22:24 UTC
Yes - I already pointed out two modules you can use: Unicode::Map8 and Encode. I'd use Unicode::Map8 personally, since I've used it before. Encode is newer and I've heard people say it's better, but I've never used it myself. Give it a try after reading the documentation. If you run into trouble post a new question about it here. -sam	[reply]
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