Re^3: Missing download links.

Good to know. I have been a little perplexed in the past by related comments about charsets and the site which are now clear. Thanks.

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Re^4: Missing download links. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 09, 2010 at 00:21 UTC
PerlMonks delivers pages in iso-8859-1, so the form content must be encoded using the same. Hoping for the best, some browsers HTML-encode characters that aren't present in the form's charset. So if I enter "♠" into the form, my browser sends in "`♠`". Outside of code tags, that sequence gets echoed back by PerlMonks so you see "♠". Of course, code tags encode HTML meta-characters including "`&`", so the sequence gets encoded and appears as "`♠`".	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: Missing download links.
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 09, 2010 at 00:21 UTC

PerlMonks delivers pages in iso-8859-1, so the form content must be encoded using the same.

Hoping for the best, some browsers HTML-encode characters that aren't present in the form's charset. So if I enter "♠" into the form, my browser sends in "♠". Outside of code tags, that sequence gets echoed back by PerlMonks so you see "♠".

Of course, code tags encode HTML meta-characters including "&", so the sequence gets encoded and appears as "♠".

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