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al3ss
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Sep 24, 2008, 9:04 AM

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Hi all, the question is plain simple, I've been trying to fix this for a while but... Please help me.
I am using UTF-8 encoded .pl files, I have

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use strict; 
use utf8; 
use encoding 'utf8';

On top of all my .pl files, now somewhere I do:

Code

print "title = ", ${$lot}{title}, " = ${$lot}{title} \n";

Which prints:

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title = Attribué à Jacob de HEUSCH = Attribu&#65533; &#65533; Jacob de HEUSCH

This output is screenshot in the attached PNG.

I could solve this by always printing variables directly, but this also happens when I use those variables with DBI, and these values get truncated when saved in my database. I am calling SET NAMES utf8 when creating the DB connection.

Any solution? Thanks in advance,

Al3ss

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shawnhcorey
Enthusiast

Sep 24, 2008, 9:15 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1805 views)

Re: [al3ss] utf8 [In reply to]	Can't Post

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Hi all, the question is plain simple, I've been trying to fix this for a while but... Please help me.
I am using UTF-8 encoded .pl files, I have

Code

use strict; 
use utf8; 
use encoding 'utf8';

On top of all my .pl files, now somewhere I do:

Code

print "title = ", ${$lot}{title}, " = ${$lot}{title} \n";

Which prints:

Code

title = Attribué à Jacob de HEUSCH = Attribu&#65533; &#65533; Jacob de HEUSCH

`use utf8;` allows you to use UTF-8 enocding directly in your Perl script. It does so by converting into an internal representation. You have to convert back to UTF-8 to print it.

Try:

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binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; 
print "title = ", ${$lot}{title}, " = ${$lot}{title} \n";

See `perldoc -f binmode` for details.

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al3ss
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Sep 25, 2008, 3:14 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1796 views)

Re: [shawnhcorey] utf8 [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks for your reply. Sadly, your suggestion hasn't changed anything - the output is still the same, and even if it had worked, I don't think it'd have helped on the DBI side.

Any other suggestion?

Al3ss

shawnhcorey
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Sep 27, 2008, 6:48 AM

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Re: [al3ss] utf8 [In reply to]	Can't Post

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Are you using symbolic references? (See `perldoc perlref` for details). Symbolic references can do weird things inside quotes.

And, if memory serves, the entity � means an invalid UTF-8 character has been encountered and this symbol replaced it.

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