RE: Question about converting utf8 to ascii and char refs

[Siladi, Aaron]

Ok so that should work given the string has utf8 flag set.  

I guess the problem may be that my string doesn't have it set.  

I'm getting the string as output from XML::DOM::Document->toString, so I
should investigate with that module why isn't setting the utf8 flag.

Thanks

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Ing-Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 5:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Question about converting utf8 to ascii and char refs

Aaron Siladi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a UTF-8 string which I want to output as ascii and have the UTF8
>characters converted to numeric character references.
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>I tried using Encode with the FB_HTMLCREFS fail back option enabled, but
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>the 2 byte UTF8 characters, 2 incorrect char refs were printed out instead
>of the correct one.

You mean like this:
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#!perl
use Encode;
my $s = chr(0x100)."4";
my $n = encode('ascii',$s,Encode::FB_HTMLCREF);
print "$n\n";
__END__
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Works for me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/p4work/mail> perl /tmp/try
&#256;4

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