No dice:
my $medicationN =
HTML::Entities::decode_entities(Encode::decode_utf8($r-
>param('medicationNotes')));
warn $medicationN . ": TEST"; # ----> "dsf      dsfsd: TEST"
On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Jérôme Etévé wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Neither the http protocol or mason deals with decoding of inputs.
> If your param potentially contains utf-8 encoded unicode characters
> as well as html entities, then you
> have to decode it like that:
>
> my $dec =
> HTML::Entities::decode_entities(Encode::decode_utf8($r-
> >param('myparam')));
>
> Then $dec will be a perl unicode string with its own internal
> representation you should care about.
>
> The use utf8; is just a pragma to tell the interpreter your source
> code is encoded in UTF8. If you don't program with exotic accentuated
> characters in your source code, then it's not an issue.
>
> To store and retrieve later perl string in and from mysql with UTF8
> encoding, you have to turn on the
> ' mysql_enable_utf8 option of the mysql driver.
>
> As they say in the doc, this option is experimental but I've been
> using it for years.
>
> <opinion>
> If you want an open source database that handle this transparently
> and in a non experimental way (plus lot of features which should be
> implemented as standard in any serious database software), use
> postgresql.
> </opinion>
>
> If you read french, I wrote a post about those unicode issues with
> the stack mysql/apache/perl/mason :
> http://perlmason.blogspot.com/2007/09/internationalisation-i18n-unicode-et.html
>
>
> Cheers !!
>
> Jerome.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Tech list
> <tech_l...@womenshealth.com> wrote:
>> I have a form that sends the textContent of a div. When it contains
>> ' ' chars I get unicode character 194, which is "Â". How can
>> I have
>> perl see this correctly? "use utf8;" at the top didn't seem to
>> help... I
>> also want to save it in mysql correctly as well.
>> Thanks!
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