Re: HTML::Entities and WinLatin1 NCRs [PATCH]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 09:18, Gisle Aas wrote:

> Encode::decode() doesn't allow you to pass in a Unicode string with
> the gremlins in it.  This is what we had here.

Well, right. If it has the gremlins, it's not Unicode. So what is it?

> What we want is to
> convert from a string to another string, while what Encode provides is
> conversion between bytes and strings.

Yes, but if it's CP1252, you can convert it to utf8 and then to UTF-8.

> The cp1252_fixup($text) function happens to be the same as
> decode('cp1252', $text) when $text is Latin1, but not when $text is
> Unicode.

Actually, it should be the same when $text is CP1252. But where is  
the text coming from? How could it be a mix of Unicode and CP1252?

Best,

David