[Slashcode-development] [PATCH] xmlencode(): make entitizing of non-ASCII-printable characters switchable

[Oliver M. B. <ol...@fa...>]

Still clearing my personal patch queue ;-)

Slash::Utility::Data::xmlencode() converts all characters that are not
ASCII-printable into entities. This is rather ugly and greatly increases
data size of RSS feeds for sites that mostly have non-ASCII content.
The XML declaration says UTF-8 it the encoding, thus we should be clear to
output UTF-8 characters. And if the input to xmlencode() wasn't UTF-8,
the entitizing wouldn't help anywy. 

The patch below is against R_2_5_0_41 and makes this entitizing dependent
on a new constant "rss_entitize_nonascii". Please consider it for merge.

# I also have a set of patches for a completely UTF-8ized Slashcode, but
# it depends on Perl 5.8, a patch to DBD::MySQL and some ugly trickery
# and is thus not yet ready for public consumption. If anybody is interested,
# I can post some details.

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	Oliver M. Bolzer
	ol...@go...

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