Re: Segfault using HTML::Entities

On 30 Jun 2004, at 17:25, Eric Cholet wrote:

> Le 30 juin 04, à 14:46, Richard Jolly a écrit :
>
>> In my original mail the offending line was:
>>
>> <title>The Modern R&amp;eacute;sum&amp;eacute;</title>
>>
>> Now this is a bit off, because is RSS, therefore utf8, but its got 
>> encoded latin1 entities (&eacute;) in there, with the & further 
>> encoded for xml safety.
>
> I'm no XML expert, but this doesn't look right. An e acute is &eacute;
> whereas &amp;eacute is &eacute. It's not "safer", it's different.
> IMHO the double encoding is in the XML data itself.

Definitely the  original rss is messed up - it shouldn't need &eacute;, 
because it should be utf8. The script I wrote was an attempt to get the 
xml back to how the utf8 should be, and then html-encode it for web 
display (for legacy reasons I can't display it as utf8). The garbage 
I'm finding in RSS feeds is terrible, I just came across:

     <title>BCCI confirms India A&amp;Acirc;Â’s Zimbabwe tour</title>

in a supposedly utf8 feed (see my post on perlmonks at 
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=370892 )

> Also, saying &eacute; et al are "latin1" entities doesn't make
> sense to me, since entities are a way to encode non ASCII characters
> into an ASCII representation-- this is orthogonal to the XML document's
> encoding or the XML parser's output encoding.

True - I keep struggling to find the right terminology. I've moved to 
using 'html-encoding' to indicate using named entities such as 
&eacute;, but thats still not very good.

> --
> Eric Cholet
>