Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Ron, Your script should send a response header as follows: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 and in your HTML source you should have a matching meta-tag: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 / If you're using CA then the response header can be defined by:

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Mike On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 09:23 +0100, Mike Tonks wrote: You got me there. I'm using mysql with utf8 and this works fine for me. I tend to agree with Peter that utf8 is the way to go. I've tried to go the 'utf8' way (1) httpd.conf: PerlSetEnv PGCLIENTENCODING UTF8 (2) startup.pl:

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Ron, Don't know if this will come through correctly via email - I'll mail you direct with file as an attachment - but I ended up writing a simple perl script to run from the command line to test my utf8 data display and retrieval from the database. You will need to alter the database calls to

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Mike On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:18 +0100, Mike Tonks wrote: Hi Ron, Don't know if this will come through correctly via email - I'll mail Yep, received. $many x $thanx; In summary - I found I did not need encode or decode functions, but did need to 'use utf8' and binmode utf8, and when

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Mike Ok. Here's the output. Don't know if this will come through correctly via email - I'll mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./test_utf8.pl Test phrases - display and concatenation Benützername [UTF8 on, non-ASCII, 12 characters 13 bytes] Se déconnecter [UTF8 on, non-ASCII, 14 characters 15

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

You got me there. I'm using mysql with utf8 and this works fine for me. I tend to agree with Peter that utf8 is the way to go. 475 | info | CGIApp: CÔTE D'IVOIRE. Encoding: UTF8 off, ASCII, 3 characters 3 bytes | 2008-09-08 09:27:03.887059 3 chars? WTF? The code is: $self - log($_ -

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Ron Savage wrote on 9/5/08 7:51 PM: Hi Folks Here is the set up (details below): o An fcgid scripts calls... o A module based on CGI::Application::Dispatch, which calls... o My module, which reads country names from Postgres and displays them This works, so Ivory Coast is displayed as

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

I don't have a full explanation, but the second character looks like a wrongly encoded double-byte utf8 issue, i.e. utf8 character (double byte) being displayed as two characters. Do you see 'wide character in print anywhere? This can happen when you concatenate two string together if the uft8

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Mike On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 09:33 +0100, Mike Tonks wrote: I don't have a full explanation, but the second character looks like a wrongly encoded double-byte utf8 issue, i.e. utf8 character (double byte) being displayed as two characters. Do you see 'wide character in print anywhere?

Re: [cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Peter On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 20:49 -0500, Peter Karman wrote: Ron Savage wrote on 9/5/08 7:51 PM: Hi Folks Here is the set up (details below): o An fcgid scripts calls... o A module based on CGI::Application::Dispatch, which calls... o My module, which reads country names from

[cgiapp] Problem displaying French, sometimes

Hi Folks Here is the set up (details below): o An fcgid scripts calls... o A module based on CGI::Application::Dispatch, which calls... o My module, which reads country names from Postgres and displays them This works, so Ivory Coast is displayed as 'CÔte D'ivoire' (ignoring the upper-case O