Did you use both ENCODING => 'utf8' in "new" and binmode => ':encoding(utf8)' in "process"?
There is more about it at this web page: http://www.lemoda.net/perl/template-encoding/index.html On 21 October 2014 16:44, David Hickman <david.hick...@it.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear all, > > > > I wondered if anyone had any experience of using the Perl Template Toolkit > and UTF-8 encoded files? I appear to be facing a rather Strange issue with > a UTF-8 encoded template file (although the only UTF-8 encoded characters > in the file are the £ sign): > > > > • If I don’t tell the template toolkit anything about the encoding of the > template file then the resulting output from the template is correct and > the £ signs are output in UTF-8 format > > > > • If I specifically tell the template toolkit that the file is encoded in > UTF-8 (either using the configuration parameters, a BOM on the template > file, or both) then the £ signs in the template are converted to character > code 163 (the ANSI equivalent). This breaks my intended output of the > template as the character encoding reported to the browser in the response > header is UTF-8 even though the file now contains characters that are not > compatible with UTF-8. > > > > • If I add some “definitely Unicode” characters (自河南经乱关) to the template > and don’t change anything else in the file at all, then the output from the > file works fine regardless of whether I tell the template toolkit that the > file is UTF-8 or not. > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas about what might be going on and how I could > fix this issue? From what I have found from my investigation it appears as > though the £ sign sits in a character range that can cause Perl to change > its interpretation of a string and I wonder if this might be causing a > problem somewhere down the line? It might be worth mentioning that the > template toolkit is configured to compile templates in memory rather than > writing to disk. > > > > > > Any pointers would be most gratefully received as I am rather stuck! > > > > > > Best Regards, > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > templates mailing list > templates@template-toolkit.org > http://mail.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates > >
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