On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 09:25 , Bart Schuller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The cool Encoding support in 5.8 to be enables me to properly solve a
> very common task: making HTML entities out of utf-8 data.
>
> I generated a ucm file with entries like this:
>
> <U00A0> \x26\x6E\x62\x73\x70\x3B |0 # nbsp
>
> The resulting Encode::HTMLEntities encoding works perfectly. However, I
> want it to do more.
>
> Not every unicode character has a corresponding entity. Unknown ones can
> be encoded like €, so I would like my Encoding to use a simple
> function as a fallback. This proves hard. With CHECK == Encode::FB_WARN
> it looks like the whole string is left untouched, so my plan to just
> substr() off the first character, handle it by hand and repeat is not
> going to work.
>
> I'd be very happy with a CHECK mode which would allow me to handle a
> single problematic character in perl. Having to find it in a longer
> string is very hard in this case, because it's every character > 0x{7f}
> which is not in my .ucm file.
As a matter of fact, I was thinking of adding FB_HTMLENT or something
like that. It seems trivial; Unless jhi whips me for the sin of
Feeping Creaturism, I'll do so.
CAVEAT; This will be done via fallback so &<>" will not turn into
entities!
Dan the Encode Maintainer
