Re: HTML::Entities chokes on XML::Parser strings

[John Siracusa]

On 5/7/02 10:58 AM, Paul Lindner wrote:
> The output from your example looks like UTF-8 data (Ã is a
> commonly seen UTF-8 escape sequence).  XML::Parser converts all
> incoming text into UTF-8.  You will need to convert it back to
> iso-8859-1.
> 
> My favorite is Text::Iconv
> 
>        use Text::Iconv;
>        $utf8tolatin1 = Text::Iconv->new("UTF-8", "ISO8859-1");
> 
>        my $buffer_latin1 = $converter->convert($buffer);

So HTML::Entities only works with ISO8859-1 (or ASCII, presumably)?  What if
I have actual UTF-8 data?  Won't conversion to ISO8859-1 in service of
HTML::Entities result in data loss?

-John