3dkiwi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh great and wise ones I wish to partake in your wisdom for a moment.

I am using the CGI.pm and generating the page title via the 

print $q -> start_html(-title=> 'xXxXxX™'),    
                       -style=>{'src'=>"./style.css"}
);

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code.

My problem is the HTML Entity (for the TradeMark) does not render properly.

I have tried the HTML::Entities module to decode the string first but with no success.

The entity works OK in the title of a standard HTML page.

Many thanks for any pearls of wisdom in advance.

3d

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Re: HTML Entities in CGI.pm Titles
by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 12, 2007 at 08:41 UTC
    This snippet works for me: 

    use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Entities qw(decode_entities);
use CGI;
use Encode;

my $title = decode_entities('xXxXxX™');
my $cgi = new CGI;

print $cgi->header(-charset => 'utf-8'),
      $cgi->start_html(encode("utf-8",$title));

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    It prints out

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>xXxXxX™</title>

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    Note that the following line is buggy, but I believe this is fixed in never CGI versions:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

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      Moritz

      Yep works for me too.

      Thanks for that. I was not doing enough encoding and decoding, but am now :-)

      Ta muchly

      3d

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