Re: Fetching the charset when set in meta.

I had the same problem and wrote a new module HTTP::Response::Charset
that exactly does it, i.e: add charset() method to $response object.
http://use.perl.org/~miyagawa/journal/31250


On 1/12/07, Bill Moseley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:11:54PM +0100, Gisle Aas wrote:
> > >It would be handy to have a charset method.
> >
> > Noted.
>
> Also for the wish list:
>
> It would be nice if the uncompressing was separate from the decoding
> the charset.
>
> I'm spidering and then piping the output to another program.  So, I
> need to get the uncompressed and decoded content into the spider for
> processing (and extracting links).  That's where
>
>    $response->decoded_content;
>
> comes in handy.
>
> But, I also need to print the content back out.  The content
> needs to be re-encoded at this point.
>
> I have two choices for encoding the output: one is to re-encode into
> the original charset (hence $response->charset would be handy), or I
> could always output utf8, but then I'd need to replace the charset in
> any http-equiv meta tags to reflect the utf8 encoding.
>
> And if uncompressing was a separate method from decodings I could just
>
>    print $response->uncoompressed_content;
>
> and print the content uncompressed, but still encoded in the original
> encoding.
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Moseley
> [email protected]
>
>


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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa