From: "Peter Karman" <pe...@peknet.com>
Neo [GC] wrote on 02/23/2009 09:41 AM:
Does anyone know a _safe_ method to convert _any_ string-scalar to utf8?
Something like
anything_to_utf8($s)
, regardless if $s contains ascii, latin1, utf8, tasty hodgepodge or hot
fn0rd, utf8-flag is set or not and is neither affected by full moon nor
my horrorscope, _without_ doing double-encoding (there MUST be some way
to determine if it already is utf8... my silly java editor can do it and
perl makes difficult things at least possible).
I would greatly appreciate this philosophers stone and will send my hero
a bottle of finest bavarian (munich!) beer called Edelstoff ("precious
stuff" - tasty).
Search::Tools::UTF8::to_utf8() comes close. It won't handle mixed
encoding in a single string (which would be garbage anyway) but it does
try to prevent double-encoding and uses the Encode goodness under the
hood.
--
Peter Karman . pe...@peknet.com . http://peknet.com/
I understand that there are reasons for not transforming all the encodings
to UTF-8 in core, even though it seems to be not very complicated, because
maybe there are some tables that contain ISO-8859-2 chars and other tables
that contain ISO-8859-1 chars, and when the data need to be saved, it should
keep its original encoding.
But if somebody wants to create a new Catalyst app, with a new database, new
templates, controllers, etc, I think it could be very helpful if the
programmer would only need to specify only once that he wants to use UTF-8
everywhere - in the database, in the templates, in the configuration files
of HTML::FormFu, in the controllers, and not in more places in the
configuration file, or specify UTF8Columns in DBIC classes...
It could be a kind of default.
Octavian
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