[Catalyst] CSV / UTF-8 / Unicode

[Craig Chant]

well Lars said that binmode(":encoding...") wasn't encoding.

I thought it was, I very confused here!

Anyway, I've also tried...

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        # encode UTF8 octet
        use Encode qw(decode encode);
        my $octets = encode('UTF-8', $xls);

        # output header
        $c->response->content_type('application/vnd.ms-excel');
        $c->response->content_length(length($octets));
        $c->response->header(Content_Disposition => 'attachment;filename=NBCS_Export.csv');

        # create an IO::File for Catalyst
        use IO::File;
        my $iof = IO::File->new;

        $iof->open(\$octets, "r");
        #$iof->binmode(":encoding(UTF-8)");

        # output XLS data
        $c->response->body($iof);

        # close file
        undef $iof;

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But still if I use the binmode encoding line catalyst falls over with 'wide character' and if I don't I get a spread sheet full of junk characters?

Either way, it's not working, why would this be?

Craig.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Whitaker [mailto:mike at altrion.org]
Sent: 02 July 2013 11:47
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] CSV / UTF-8 / Unicode

On 2 Jul 2013, at 10:59, Craig Chant <craig at homeloanpartnership.com> wrote:
>
>        utf8::encode($xls);
>
>        $iof->binmode(":encoding(UTF-8)");

...erm, haven't you now encoded twice?

Also? Don't use utf8::encode - if you can't use IO layers etc, use the general Encode module.
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