Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

[Graeme St.Clair]

I would throw the sterling sign out of the source document, and substitute 
£ or £ or £ (semi-colon is important!).  I think that would 
probably work across all platforms and browsers.

HTH, rgds, GStC.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "angie ahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <modperl@perl.apache.org>; <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: Baffling unicode wierdness

Hi List
I've been pottering away trying to get utf-8 behaving on my set up and
have nearly got there but then the client phoned up saying that the £
symbol was being displayed as a ?
The first page contains several languages and a £ sign and all is
displayed fine.
http://perl.wtsbroadcast.com/about/Angies_test_page.html
The second is the same as the first but without all the extra language
stuff. There the £ displays as a ?.
http://perl.wtsbroadcast.com/about/Angies_second_test_page.html
Very wierd. Same code generated both pages. To explain the whole set
up would take a *long* time but I wondered if anyone else had seen
this?
$v = $q->url_param('fieldname');
my $decoder = Encode::Guess->guess($v);
ref($decoder) or warn "Can't guess for $v: $decoder"; # trap error this way
if (ref($decoder)) {
my $utf8 = $decoder->decode($v) ? $decoder->decode($v) : $v;
$params{$uarg} = $utf8;
}
else {
$params{$uarg} = decode("utf8", $v) ? decode("utf8", $v) : $v;
}
I just can't fathom this.
MP1/Apache 1 on fedora core 2.
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