Hi, Dave! Could you please elaborate a little. Why do want all the 8bit characters entities-encoded in the first place? It is perfectly normal for HTML to contain latin1 characters if there's a charset META or HTTP header (which you will need regardless of whether you encode entities or not).
* Dave W. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [October 19 2004, 08:18]: > We ran headlong into the need to add iso-8859-1 (Latin1) support to a large > webapp that used over a hundred templates. Rather than tracking down the > many places where we stuffed parameters, then modify them to use > HTML::Entities (and remove "ESCAPE=HTML"), I took the "simplest thing that > could possibly work" path, and added an 'encode_entities' option to new(). > When true, it causes 7-bit unclean characters to be escaped via > HTML::Entities::encode_entities() when "ESCAPE=HTML" is used. > > With the patch, getting most of the way to Latin1 support was a simple as > adding > > my $template = HTML::Template->new( > filename => $template, > global_vars => 1, > cache => 1, > + encode_entities => 1, > ); > > > The performance hit (for the encode_entities => 1 case) is < 1% for our app, > as measured via our unit test suite. > > The patch for HTML::Template 2.7, including doc changes and unit tests, is > http://www.davewsmith.com/code/HTML-Template-2_7-encode.diff > > To maintain backward compatibility for people who expect single-quotes to be > escaped (e.g., for existing unit tests), single quotes are escaped either > way. -- Alex Kapranoff, #!/usr/bin/perl -w $SIG{__WARN__}=sub{print substr("@_",-43+ord$_,1)for '6.823O1US90:350:739OJ;0:*'=~m}.}g},$}='PJlshrk';reset$}+43; ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
