Re: HTML Entities in CGI.pm Titles

This snippet works for me:

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

my $title = decode_entities('xXxXxX&#8482;');
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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Re^2: HTML Entities in CGI.pm Titles by 3dkiwi (Novice) on Nov 12, 2007 at 09:16 UTC
Moritz Yep works for me too. Thanks for that. I was not doing enough encoding and decoding, but am now :-) Ta muchly 3d	[reply]