in reply to Encoding problems

If I understand the discussion so far, you are putting utf8 character data into the html, but you are loading file name strings with iso-8859-7 characters into a popup menu.

So you just need to do one of the following (not both): (1) use iso-8859-7 as the text data for your html content (not utf8), and expect client browsers to use that encoding when diplaying the page; or (2) convert the file name strings to utf8 before you load them into the popup menu. Either way, the point is to make sure all the page content (text and form data) use the same encoding, and either way, Encode is the easiest to use. Here's how to convert the file names strings to utf8: 

use Encode;  ## add this line near the top

my @files = <../data/text/*.txt>;
my @display_files = map { /([^\/]+)\.txt/; decode('iso-8859-7', $1) } 
+@files;

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In other words, just add the "decode" call to your map block; it returns the utf8 version of the 8859-7 string stored in its second arg. I don't think anything else needs to change in your code (unless you have other 8859 strings coming from other places that you haven't shown us).

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Re^2: Encoding problems
by Nik (Initiate) on May 24, 2006 at 09:59 UTC
    Wellt hanks fro answerign i hoepd i ahve seen you answer before but i saw it just now. Well finally my aproach was that: 
    my @files = <../data/text/*.txt>;
my @display_files = map /([^\/]+)\.txt/, @files;
Encode::from_to($_, "ISO-8859-7", "utf8") for @display_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;'));
print end_form;

my $passage = param('select') || "&#913;&#961;&#967;&#953;&#954;&#942;
+ &#931;&#949;&#955;&#943;&#948;&#945;!";
Encode::from_to($passage, "utf8", "ISO-8859-7") if param();


if ( param('select') )
{
    open(FILE, "<../data/text/$passage.txt") or die $!;
.....

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    Because windows are unable of saving greek filenames also in utf8 format(they save only the file contents iam afraid) i ahev to do this tediouts tranformation encodign task very often and in several instanced of my code. In the abbove example i transform grom greek => utf8 the fialen string so thay can appear correctly in the cleints browser and also then when the cleint select something uppon submit i have to *also* tranfrom back the encoded string from utf8 => greek because as you can see immediately after the user selected file must be opened.

    This become even more tedious when i try to also convert other greek text to utf8 othweriwse it will not appear correctly.look this foe example: 
    use POSIX qw(strftime);
use Encode;


print header( -charset=>'utf8' );
print start_html( -style=>'/data/css/style.css',
                  -title=>'&#936;&#965;&#967;&#969;&#966;&#949;&#955;&
+#942; &#928;&#957;&#949;&#965;&#956;&#945;&#964;&#953;&#954;&#940; &#
+922;&#949;&#943;&#956;&#949;&#957;&#945;!' );

my ($select, $row, $data);
my $date = strftime('%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', localtime);

my $display_date = strftime('%a %d %b, %I:%M %p', localtime);
Encode::from_to($display_date, 'ISO-8859-7', 'utf8');

my $host = gethostbyaddr (pack ("C4", split (/\./, $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}
+)), 2) || $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};
$host = "&#925;&#943;&#954;&#959;&#962;" if ( ($host =~ /dell/) or ($h
+ost =~ /dsldevice/) or ($host =~ /localhost/) );

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    #date its like this because mysql needs it to be in thsi specific outline in order to insert the date into its database date field. #as for display_date this not only needs steaming but also need encoding to utf8 form otherwise in my index.pl iam not able to see the date correctly(only the number) all other date strigns to question marks.

    Today i saw that another elementt of my script needs transormation to uft8. This has become a very bery tedious and annoying work to do and i ahve to repeat thsi to other scripts as well.

    I would be very gratefull if you guys find a way that i will get rid of theose tranformation and all page contect be default inputs and output as utf8.

    Thank you.
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