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in thread Another utf-8 decoding problem

"A proper string in Perl's internal format. Should be fine to print out if you add that IO layer, or put it through Encode::encode. " - Even if the browser environment is iso-8859-1? :-)

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Re^12: Another utf-8 decoding problem
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 11, 2010 at 15:20 UTC
    Even if the browser environment is iso-8859-1?

    If you encode to ISO-8859-1, or set up your IO layer as ":encoding(ISO-8859-1)", sure.

    Note that I originally asked for the encoding of your terminal, but if this is a CGI script, the "charset" mentioned in the HTTP header counts.

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      Hi,

      I 'sort of' found the problem, and I guess i 'kind of' didn't pay attention. Now I want to know why:-)

      I encoded the string to iso-8859 using
      $variable = encode("iso-8859-1", $variable);

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      If I printed it with
      print "Some text".$variable."Some other text";

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      it didn't work. But if I did
      print $variable."Some other text";

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      it did work. I guess that this has to do with binmode in some way. But why??
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        I guess that this has to do with binmode in some way

        No, it has to do with the fact that some of your strings are decoded, and others (like string literals) not. Please read again the link I gave, you it's all explained there. Yes, I know it's a long read, but it's just not a simple topic.

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