Re: [cgiapp] UTF-8 output
On 11/02/2009 12:43 AM, Michael Lackhoff wrote: Without the header_add I get a HTTP header with an ISO-8859-1 charset definition so the browser thinks it is latin1 and even a meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 / in the template won't help. That's very strange. Does it happen the same across all browsers? The meta tag should be equivalent to the HTTP header. And is there no better way for the template output than to post_process the whole template? Is there no way to get the output of tt_process as UTF-8 so that there is no post_processing necessary? I have a patched HTML::Template that reads in the templates as UTF8, my db connections are all UTF8 and I decode the CGI params as UTF8. As long as all your inputs are UTF8 decoded then you don't need to explicitly encode the output. -- Michael Peters Plus Three, LP # CGI::Application community mailing list #### ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp## #### ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ####
Re: [cgiapp] UTF-8 output
On 02.11.2009 15:27 Michael Peters wrote: On 11/02/2009 12:43 AM, Michael Lackhoff wrote: Without the header_add I get a HTTP header with an ISO-8859-1 charset definition so the browser thinks it is latin1 and even a meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 / in the template won't help. That's very strange. Does it happen the same across all browsers? The meta tag should be equivalent to the HTTP header. It is with firefox, the only relevant browser for my app. If they are equivalent it might be undefined who wins: the HTTP header or the meta-tag. But I will do more tests with a very basic template. And is there no better way for the template output than to post_process the whole template? Is there no way to get the output of tt_process as UTF-8 so that there is no post_processing necessary? I have a patched HTML::Template that reads in the templates as UTF8, my db connections are all UTF8 and I decode the CGI params as UTF8. As long as all your inputs are UTF8 decoded then you don't need to explicitly encode the output. Sounds very interesting. Let me try to follow: I am in the process of changing the db connection as well but have still some problems with CGI params. How do you decode them? Not one at a time, I guess? In my app they seem to be encoded twice after a roundtrip (have to do more debugging). Say, I managed to have all my inputs UTF8 decoded, how do you persuade Perl to output UTF8 without explicit encoding? Is it just your patched HTML::Template or is there a trick that would also work with Template::Toolkit? Many thanks for your response! -Michael # CGI::Application community mailing list #### ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp## #### ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ####
Re: [cgiapp] UTF-8 output
On 02.11.2009 16:21 Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
From CGI.pm :
# set charset to the safe ISO-8859-1
$self-charset('ISO-8859-1');
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LDS/CGI.pm-3.48/lib/CGI.pm
Thanks for the hint! But isn't it better then to tackle the problem
right at the root:
$webapp-query-charset('UTF-8'); # works!
I always add the following line :
$webapp-header_add(-charset = 'UTF-8');
because this would set the header twice, first from CGI.pm to ISO-8859-1
then from the webapp to UTF-8 (no big deal but still) or are there other
reasons why header_add is better?
But since this is more or less academic because both approaches work, I
would be much more interested in good ways to deal with the decoding of
CGI-params and the encoding of TT-templates ;-)
-Michael
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Re: [cgiapp] UTF-8 output
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Michael Lackhoff lackh...@zbmed.uni-koeln.de wrote: Sounds very interesting. Let me try to follow: I am in the process of changing the db connection as well but have still some problems with CGI params. How do you decode them? Not one at a time, I guess? In my app they seem to be encoded twice after a roundtrip (have to do more debugging). Have a look at this perlmonks post by Rhesa: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=651574 Cheers, Cees # CGI::Application community mailing list #### ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp## #### ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ####
