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

[John Siracusa]

On 5/7/02 11:25 AM, Gisle Aas wrote:
> 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.

Well, I'll let your guys figure it out (all fixed in 5.8, right? :)  In the
meantime, I guess I'll stick with the workaround(s) posted... :)

-John