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

[Gisle Aas]

John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 5/7/02 10:58 AM, Paul Lindner wrote:
> > The output from your example looks like UTF-8 data (&Atilde; 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)?

Not true.  But the unicode support in perl-5.6.x has many bugs.  With
5.8 things will be better.  It is a bad idea for XML::Parser to give
out strings with the UTF8 flag set.

Regards,
Gisle