I've posted a revised patch via rt at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=1550
Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 09:19 AM 9/16/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>Craig Berry wrote:
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>>>b.) The attribute values printed to the ppd file are surrounded with
>>>double quotes per XML requirements, but there is no portable way to
>>>escape double quotes inside of double-quoted strings that works on all
>>>shells. I've replaced the occurrences of C<\"> with C<\x22> and added a
>>>comment that I hope mitigates the obfuscation.
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>>On os390 and bs2000 the double quotation mark is encoded in hexadecimal
>>as C<\x7f>. I'd suggest testing for EBCDIC via either
>>C<if ($Config{'ebcdic'} eq 'define')> (expensive), or C<if (ord('A') ==
>>193)> (faster?).
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> Urk. Yes, I forgot about EBCDIC, though since the ppd is just an orphaned
> snippet of XML with no XML declaration, it's not clear to me that it could
> ever be intelligble on a system that is not UTF-8. However, if we write
> everything else in the native character set then we should certainly write
> the quotes in the native character set. I'll rethink the patch and try to
> come up with something better.
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