Re: utf8 horror stories

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:13:08PM -0600, John Williams wrote:
> > I tried changing it to this:
> >
> >         use encoding 'utf8';
> >         ${ $self->{buffer} } .= $_ foreach grep { defined } @_;
> >
> > But all the doubly-encoded utf8 strings came back, indicating that it is
> > still doing the latin1->utf8 conversion on the strings which are "off".
> >
> > I'm using perl-5.8.3, encoding-1.48, mod_perl-1.99_12.  Do I need to
> > upgrade something?
>
> Hmm.  Try specifying "use encoding 'utf8'" before loading the rest of Mason
> Modules, perhaps?  Also consider using encoding::warnings first (without
> "use encoding 'utf8'") to find out where did the conversion really occur.

Thanks for the suggestions.  encoding::warnings looks like it will be very
helpful.

For technical reasons I cannot try it on our web site for a few days, but
I'll let you when I get some results using encoding::warnings.

~ John Williams




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