Re: Question about converting utf8 to ascii and char refs

Aaron Siladi <[email protected]> writes:
>I have a UTF-8 string which I want to output as ascii and have the UTF8
>characters converted to numeric character references.
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>I tried using Encode with the FB_HTMLCREFS fail back option enabled, but for
>the 2 byte UTF8 characters, 2 incorrect char refs were printed out instead
>of the correct one.

You mean like this:
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#!perl
use Encode;
my $s = chr(0x100)."4";
my $n = encode('ascii',$s,Encode::FB_HTMLCREF);
print "$n\n";
__END__
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Works for me:
nick@llama:/home/p4work/mail> perl /tmp/try
&#256;4

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>Any help is greatly appreciated
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>Thanks
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>Aaron
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