RE: HTML::Entities issue

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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:11:10 +0200
To: "Charles K. Clarkson" <cclarkson@htcomp.net>,  Perl Lists <beginners@perl.org>

Hi Charles,

Charles K. Clarkson wrote on 29.04.2004:

>Jan Eden <lists@janeden.org> wrote:
> It may be an issue with your terminal software. Is
>your terminal the place you expect to display results
>of a script like this? Have you tried it under a
>different terminal emulation?
>
> I tried a comparison test. I used this and always
>received two equal strings.
>
>print "Same\n" if $string eq $string2;
>
>
> When I got to the end of this reply I realized that
>I was using ActiveState 5.8.3. perl582delta and
>perldelta don't specify a change in core for unicode.
>You might try looking at the ordinal values of both
>strings.
>
>print ord $_ foreach split //, $string;
>print "\n";
>print ord $_ foreach split //, $string2;
>
> If they are the same, capture the terminal output
>and see if something has changed in the ordinal values
>after they were sent to the terminal.

Thanks for your suggestions. It turned out to be not a terminal, but an HTML::Entities issue: decode_entities returns an iso-8859-1 encoded string, and my terminal is set to expect utf-8. Now I'll use Unicode::String to get the converted string in UTF-8.

- Jan

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