Re^3: accents and diacritical marks in a web page

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.

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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]