[Catalyst] Catalyst Unicode woes ...

[Daisuke Maki]

I've been doing Japanese web pages for such a long time now, and yet I 
still can't claim to have a full grasp of things.

But anyways, what I do is:

  * All my templates are in unicode (open documents
    with set enc=utf-8, NO BOM), as well as my FormFu
    config files.
  * I do NOT use UTF8Columns for my DBIx::Class schema
  * I do NOT use things like C::P::Unicode, T::P::Encoding

I think that means all of my data is in octets, so I have to jump hoops 
when I want to enforce Unicode semantics, such as truncating a string to 
X number of characteers, as opposed to bytes. Other than that little 
"detail", this is working fine for me.

I suppose it's a hack, but I couldn't get things to really work the 
other way around. I don't thinks this is the best practice at all, but 
just so you know ...

--d



Tobias Kremerwrote:
> Following up on a conversion I started on the DateTime mailing-list I'd like to
> ask if it is really neccessary to use C::P::Unicode if a site uses
> utf8-encoding?
> 
> I have the problem that up until now everything worked absolutely fine without
> C::P::Unicode, Template::Stash::ForceUTF8, Template::Provider::Encoding or any
> other unicode plugin because I believed that if everything is utf8 you don't
> really have to worry about it that much.
> 
> Now I recently incorporated DateTime::Locale to get a list of localized month
> names. Spitting them out in my templates revealed a <questionmark> symbol
> instead of all german umlauts. I took a look at DateTime::Locale and everything
> seems to be correct (use utf8 at the top, etc) so this can't be the culprit.
> encode("utf8")-ing the month names makes them look correct. I asked about this
> on the DateTime mailing list and everybody suggested a truckload of plugins to 
> incorporate in Catalyst which _ALL_ break everything else on my site except the
> month names which are displayed fine then. It looks like everything gets
> encoded twice when utilizing these plugins.
> 
> So I must admit I'm stuck with this. What is the best-practice for dealing with
> Catalyst and utf8? Do I really need C::P::Unicode to make this work correctly?
> What about the various TT plugins? And why the heck is everything double utf8
> encoded when using these plugins that everybody else seems to use?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any input!
> 
> --Tobias
> 
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