[html-formfu] unicode and yml?

[Josef Chladek]

Am 24.09.2007 um 14:39 schrieb Carl Franks:

> On 24/09/2007, Josef Chladek <josef.chladek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am 24.09.2007 um 13:37 schrieb Carl Franks:
>>
>>> On 24/09/2007, Josef Chladek <josef.chladek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> hello list,
>>>>
>>>> when I use the config from yml [1], my output is wrong, as soon  
>>>> as I
>>>> put [% form %] in my tt (umlauts garbled).
>>>> when I do the config in my Controller [2], everything's working.
>>>> following the thread in
>>>> http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/html-formfu/2007-August/
>>>> 000190.html
>>>> looked like that the yml/unicode problem was solved (I'm using
>>>> YAML::Syck 0.97) - any chance on getting this working correctly  
>>>> with
>>>> yml files?
>>>
>>> Are you saving the files as utf-8, or some iso variant?
>>> If you're using utf-8, then it should work - I don't know about  
>>> other
>>> encodings though.
>>
>> yes, unicode everywhere - there are no umlauts in the yml file (nor
>> the corresponding code in the controller), but the files are saved
>> utf8 (textmate and vim say so) and the controller uses 'use utf8;'
>>
>>> When you tested with umlauts in the controller, did you "use utf8;"
>>> in the file?
>>> Because you should have needed to. If it appeared to work without
>>> that, then something was still going wrong.
>>>
>>> FormFu sets the appropriate flags to make both YAML::Syck and TT
>>> handle utf-8 correctly (see ObjectUtil.pm load_config_file() and
>>> Render/base.pm xhtml() for details)
>>> - so my first suggestion is to ensure your yaml + TT files are utf-8
>>> encoded, and then, if you're viewing this in a browser, ensure  
>>> you're
>>> setting the page encoding, or if you're viewing this in a console,
>>> make sure it can display unicode ok.
>>>
>>> The examples you sent didn't seem to have any umlauts in - was that
>>> intended?
>>
>> yes, the umlauts are in the tt files and as soon as [% form %]
>> appears they are broken.
>> in the View::TT I use
>>         DEFAULT_ENCODING    => 'UTF-8',
>>
>> I tried to comment out as much as possible in the formfu files: as
>> soon as
>> process_attrs(self.attrs)
>> in start_form is processed, the umlauts are bad.
>>
>> with the controller code everything's working except that I can't get
>> $c->stash->{form}->submitted
>> what is needed to populate the form after a submit?
>
> FormFu passes ('ENCODING' => 'UTF-8') to TT, but I can't see anything
> about TT using a  DEFAULT_ENCODING setting.
>
> Have you tried outputting the source to your console to check exactly
> what's being output?
>     $ script/myapp_test /
>
> Other than that, I can't think of much else.
> If you can replicate the problem with a minimal Catalyst application,
> you could send that to the list.

made a test-app from scratch - ulauts and FormFu working there  
without a problem. I'll investigate my app and will report what  
happened. if I use Config::General format, there are no problems  
(like with the config in the controller), strange...

thanks for now
josef