Hi
Why don't you just replace the &nbps; using Javascript before the form is
submitted? There are JS libraries which do this for you ie. you can just
replace them all before submitting the data. Problem solved.
Justin
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> From: "Tech list" <tech_l...@womenshealth.com>
> To: <jerome.et...@gmail.com>
> Cc: <mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mason] handling UTF8
>
>
>> 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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