Re: HTML::Entities and Unicode

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:08:10 -0400
Ethan Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Back in November of 2003, Chen Naor posted a patch for the 
> HTML::Entities Perl module that made the HTML encoding routines 
> multi-byte safe.  I'm wondering if anybody knows this to work or not 
> work with Unicode UTF-8 encoding (specifically, Unicode encoding of 
> traditional Chinese characters, or Farsi, or anything else well outside 
> the Latin1 subset).  Forgive me if this question is silly for some 
> reason but I'm quite new to the world of multi-language systems, 
> character encoding, etc.
> 
> Is this patch still the way to go if you want to get outside of the 
> latin1 character set using Interchange?

IMHO this needs thorough investigation and testing. If you happen
to have Perl 5.6 running, that makes thing even more difficult.
But it should really done.

Bye
	Racke


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