In article <p05101000b77fc1e115e5@[192.168.1.16]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will) wrote:
> on the server or client. it seems that perl on os x uses the mac
> roman character set until run under cgi, at which point it prints
> 7bit ascii. You can confirm this by running:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print("$ = " . chr($ ) . "\n") for (32..255);
>
> which produces different results in the terminal and the browser.
I think you are mistaken, a bit. It is not that perl uses a different
character set in the two environments, it is that the two environments
have different default character sets. perl itself emits the same data,
but the terminal displays MacRoman while the web browser displays
Latin-1. It might even be that the terminal and browser are completely
"dumb" and just passing that information along to your font.
Look in the Terminal app settings, see if it has a character set
setting, or see if it has a Latin-1 font you can choose. Also, when
viewing the CGI output in MSIE, look at Character Set and change it from
Latin-1 to Mac.
In general, perl doesn't care about character sets or know what
character set a string is in (except for Unicode, which I don't know
much about). It's all just data. It's how that data is rendered that
changes between platforms/environments/applications/fonts/etc.
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