Encode only wide char entities?

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Re: Encode only wide char entities? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 09, 2012 at 20:59 UTC
You read the docs, right? :P HTML::Entities. `and this would only encode non-plain ascii: $encoded = encode_entities($input, '^\n\x20-\x25\x27-\x7e');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Encode only wide char entities? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 09, 2012 at 22:31 UTC
Why would someone escape more than `&<>'"` these days? Isn't your HTML's charset UTF-8?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Encode only wide char entities? by jabowery (Beadle) on Mar 09, 2012 at 22:46 UTC
I'm using utf8 but I'm getting "wide chars" from nasty M$ programs. What I was missing was the unicode range syntax: `encode_entities($_,'\x{0100}-\x{FFFF}')` I suppose I could convert everything to utf8 that comes in but I wanted to expose the unicode as entities in the source.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Encode only wide char entities? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 09, 2012 at 23:20 UTC
You SAY you're using UTF-8, but you forgot to actually encode to UTF-8. You probably need something like `binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Encode only wide char entities? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 09, 2012 at 22:55 UTC
some webadmins configure apache to deliver iso-latin and deny .htaccess. no chance to use utf8 then. I had this case just a week ago... Cheers Rolf	[reply]
Re^3: Encode only wide char entities? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 09, 2012 at 23:22 UTC
And Perlmonks uses cp1252. I'm assuming that's not the case here until he tells me otherwise.	[reply]