Re: Doing character encoding/decoding within libwww?

Bill Moseley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.lwp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 01:22:21AM +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Bill Moseley wrote:
> >sub decoded_content {
> >    ....
> >
> >    $content_ref = \Encode::decode($charset, $$content_ref,
> >                                   Encode::FB_CROAK() | Encode::LEAVE_SRC());
> 
> The documentation I re-read earlier even says that... This is still a
> far cry from being generally useful though, it only works for text/*
> and only if the encoding is specified in the header, or the format does
> not use some kind of inline label that is inconsistent with the default.
> Most of the time this is not the case, however.

It will also find <meta> content-type in the markup, IIRC.

It's been a long day.  What other mime types are you thinking of other
than text/*?

-- 
Bill Moseley
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