Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

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I would throw the sterling sign out of the source document, and substitute 
£ or £ or £ (semi-colon is important!).  I think that would 
probably work across all platforms and browsers.

HTH, rgds, GStC.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "angie ahl" <angie.ahl@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx>; <beginners@xxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: Baffling unicode wierdness


Hi List

I've been pottering away trying to get utf-8 behaving on my set up and
have nearly got there but then the client phoned up saying that the £
symbol was being displayed as a ?

The first page contains several languages and a £ sign and all is
displayed fine.

http://perl.wtsbroadcast.com/about/Angies_test_page.html


The second is the same as the first but without all the extra language
stuff. There the £ displays as a ?.

http://perl.wtsbroadcast.com/about/Angies_second_test_page.html


Very wierd. Same code generated both pages. To explain the whole set
up would take a *long* time but I wondered if anyone else had seen
this?

$v = $q->url_param('fieldname');

my $decoder = Encode::Guess->guess($v);
ref($decoder) or warn "Can't guess for $v: $decoder"; # trap error this way
if (ref($decoder)) {
my $utf8 = $decoder->decode($v) ? $decoder->decode($v) : $v;
$params{$uarg} = $utf8;
}
else {
$params{$uarg} = decode("utf8", $v) ? decode("utf8", $v) : $v;
}


I just can't fathom this.


MP1/Apache 1 on fedora core 2.

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