Have you tried using the HTML::Entities module?
Good luck.
Arsh
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:49:00 +0200
allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi
>
> i have some troubles with scandinavian characters in form input
> fields. i wish to translate (or subsitute rather) the special ones
> into their html enitity before they are put in a database.
>
> something like:
> ...
> my %params = $r->method eq 'POST' ? $r->content : $r->args;
>
> my $name = $params{$name};
> $name =~ s/SPEC_CHAR/HTML_ENTITY/g;
>
> ...
>
>
> but that doesn't work (?)
>
> (the above subsitution does work with normal characters)
>
> has this something to do with the particular perl i have build or
> mod_perl or apache ?
> is their an easy fix ?
>
> perl 5.8.0 / os x darwin
> mod_perl 1.27
> apache 1.3.26
>
>
> thanks
> ./allan
