Re^2: accents and diacritical marks in a web page

1. what does "like crap" mean?

like crap means

explora el complejo dinÃ¡mico entre la gente y la conservaciÃ³n 
como parte de la misiÃ³n

instead of

explora el complejo dinámico entre la gente y la conservación 
como parte de la misión
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2. your html <meta> tag claims the HTML printed from your perl code is utf-8 encoded...

that means I don't know UTF from my butt. I was simply trying different meta tags to try and make my web page claim something that would be understood by my browser -- I tried utf-8 along with x-mac-roman as well as iso-8859-1. I was just shooting in the dark hoping something will stick until I got the brilliant idea that I should ask those who know more than I do, that is, you monks.

update: and note my OP above... this same utf-8 incantation exists in the plain html file with different languages, and that renders just fine on the same computer, same web server, everything. Its just that when put through my perl application, the languages get mangled.

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Re^3: accents and diacritical marks in a web page by Joost (Canon) on Sep 10, 2007 at 11:24 UTC
Seeing this, and reading your update, it's clear that the perl script itself is UTF-8 encoded. In that case you probably should use the utf8 pragma to indicate that that is the case (basically it just means you don't have to decode() all your string literals). AFAIK you can then use HTML::Entities directly, or set STDOUT to :utf8 as I suggested above, or both. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: accents and diacritical marks in a web page by punkish (Priest) on Sep 10, 2007 at 16:12 UTC
Hi Joost, `use utf8; # and even adding... binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");` [download] doesn't do it. Stuff comes out garbled. It would be nice if it worked, as I wouldn't have use `Encode::decode_utf8` on everything, but right now only the latter seems to work. If you have any suggestions, let me know. In the meantime I will continue to proceed with `Encode` and then `HTML::Entities` Many thanks to you and shmem. -- when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: accents and diacritical marks in a web page by Joost (Canon) on Sep 10, 2007 at 16:24 UTC
If you use that snippet, you should also make sure the HTML and/or the HTTP headers signal the right encoding (i.e. UTF-8) The only thing "use utf8;" does is remove the need to "decode_utf8" on your string literals. The binmode(STOUD,":utf8"); signals that all output on STDOUT should be utf-8 encoded. i.e. it does nothing to input read from files etc - it only influences literals. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]