Re^2: How to count string length with latin characters?

(...) only allow submissions in latin-1 (which is the default perl character encoding) using the "accept-charset" property on the <form> tag (...)

That's a reasonable solution, so long as you keep in mind that characters beyond latin-1 will be submitted as encoded entities (e.g. Ł). Taking that into account in length calculations is a *lot* harder than consistently using utf8 across the board.

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Re^3: How to count string length with latin characters? by Joost (Canon) on Nov 02, 2006 at 01:34 UTC
True enough, Perl's unicode support is pretty good, but if your input is "encodable" in latin-1, it will still save you a lot of headaches to use latin instead of unicode if you work with remote applications like databases - DBD::mysql's utf8 support is still extremely unreliable for instance. edit: Oh and also note that there is no standard for encoding characters outside the accepted charset: most popular browsers use the `&#NUMBER;` encoding, but not all of them do. See the replies to Unicode characters in <code> blocks for example "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: How to count string length with latin characters?
by Joost (Canon) on Nov 02, 2006 at 01:34 UTC

DBD::mysql

edit: Oh and also note that there is no standard for encoding characters outside the accepted charset: most popular browsers use the &#NUMBER; encoding, but not all of them do. See the replies to Unicode characters in <code> blocks for example

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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