Re: Problem with french accents using mod perl

[John ORourke]

David Scott wrote:

Um, guys, whatever happened to character entities for non-US ASCII 
characters (eg é for e-accent-aigu)?  Seems to me it would be 
easy to write a filter to replace outgoing characters with their 
character entity equivalents, thereby avoiding character set issues.

d

Yeah I was thinking about doing that in a system I'm working on, then I 
realised the system might not be sending an HTML document - could be 
text or PDF or anything, so it's better to make sure the headers give 
the character set and that it matches whatever perl is set to (with use 
locale or something).

When I looked into it all properly I realised it'd be easier just to 
make everything use UTF-8, though I'm a bit worried about browser 
support for UTF-8 chars in newer browsers (eg. cellphones).

John