[Catalyst] TT and UNICODE: Garbled special characters

Daniel McBrearty danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 11:30:04 GMT 2007


how your editor is actually writing that u-with-umlaut into the text
file will also be a fatcor (it might be entering ISO-8859-1 or UTF8).

try using the appropriate \x{ ... } way of writing the char to see if
this is your problem.


On 9/5/07, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> wrote:
> if you are going to write unicode characters in your source code,
> don't you need to say "use utf8;" or something?
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.8/lib/utf8.pm
>
> I'm not sure what the default is.Source code is ascii by default ,
> AFAIK - if you are going to use something which is in the extended
> ASCII range, I'm not sure it will be UTF8 encoded unless you use the
> pragma.
>
>
> On 9/5/07, Tobias Kremer <list at funkreich.de> wrote:
> > Quoting Stefan Kühn <ducdebreme at early-dance.de>:
> > > NEXT TRY:
> > > * i saved the controller test.pm in UTF-8 encoding,
> > > * adapted the broken character ...
> >
> > What do you mean by "adapted" ?
> >
> > > * called the url
> > > * and it worked!
> >
> > So I guess you just had the wrong filetype encoding then?
> >
> > > QUESTION: Catalyst generates Perl files in the computer's standard
> > > encoding (which is cp1252). For *unicode best practice* it should be
> > > in UTF-8 encoded. Do you agree?
> >
> > AFAIK Catalyst itself doesn't generate any Perl files at all. But maybe
> > I'm just misunderstanding your question :)
> >
> > --Tobias
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