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[htmltmpl] Help! Chinese character displaying problem using HTML::TEMPLATE

From: Allen Z. <act...@gm...> - 2008-03-14 09:06:54

Hi all,

    My cgi script using Html::Template having some error display Chinese
Character.
    I have set character set to gb2312, and the encoding character set was
set to gb2312 too.
    But in  that case, the "你好" wasn't displayed as expected.
    However, I found that if I change the encoding character set of my *
browser* to utf8, it displays perfectly.
    Why ?
    Most browsers in China were set to gb2312 encoding, I don't want users
to manually change their
    default setting to view my page.
    What can I do?
    Thanks!!


cgi code:
##################################################
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard);
use HTML::Template;

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'title.tpl.php');
my $title = '你好';
$template->param('title' => $title);
*print header(-charset=>"gb2312");*

print $template->output;

template code:
##################################################
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<title><TMPL_VAR NAME=title></title>
</head>
<body>
<TMPL_VAR NAME=title>
<br>
Hello!
<br>
Hard code你好
</BODY>
</HTML>



Allen Zhang

Re: [htmltmpl] Help! Chinese character displaying problem usingHTML::TEMPLATE

From: Dawid J. <djs...@gm...> - 2008-03-14 12:11:59

Hi Allen,

You can tell the browser what encoding to use for an HTML document. The first way is to use HTTP Response headers by providing the right Content-Type header example:
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

The second way is to include it in the HTML document itself as a meta tag

<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Accomodation</title>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
</head>

You should be doing the above anyway as it does not rely on any browser defaults and UTF-8 is the way forward as it does not limit the character set.


Regards
David

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Allen Zhang 
  To: htm...@li... 
  Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:06 AM
  Subject: [htmltmpl] Help! Chinese character displaying problem usingHTML::TEMPLATE


  Hi all,

      My cgi script using Html::Template having some error display Chinese Character. 
      I have set character set to gb2312, and the encoding character set was set to gb2312 too. 
      But in  that case, the "你好" wasn't displayed as expected. 
      However, I found that if I change the encoding character set of my browser to utf8, it displays perfectly.
      Why ?
      Most browsers in China were set to gb2312 encoding, I don't want users to manually change their 
      default setting to view my page.
      What can I do?
      Thanks!!   


  cgi code:
  ##################################################
  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
  use CGI qw(:standard);
  use HTML::Template;

  my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'title.tpl.php');
  my $title = '你好';
  $template->param('title' => $title);
  print header(-charset=>"gb2312");

  print $template->output;

  template code:
  ##################################################
  <html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">
  <meta name="description" content=""> 
  <meta name="keywords" content="">
  <title><TMPL_VAR NAME=title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <TMPL_VAR NAME=title>
  <br>
  Hello!
  <br>
  Hard code你好
  </BODY>
  </HTML>



  Allen Zhang




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Re: [htmltmpl] Help! Chinese character displaying problem usingHTML::TEMPLATE

From: Brad B. <bm...@ma...> - 2008-03-14 12:50:45

Well, it looks like Allen is in fact telling the browser which encoding to
use, both in the header and the document.  I think he is trying to figure
out why he has to set it to UTF-8 when he believes the text is in gb2312.
I believe that perl is printing the text as UTF-8 because it isn't being
told
otherwise.

Regards,

-- Brad

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dawid Joubert <djs...@gm...> wrote:

>  Hi Allen,
>
> You can tell the browser what encoding to use for an HTML document. The
> first way is to use HTTP Response headers by providing the right
> Content-Type header example:
> Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
>
> The second way is to include it in the HTML document itself as a meta tag
>
>  <html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <head>
>      <title>Accomodation</title>
>  *    <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
> *
> </head>
>
> You should be doing the above anyway as it does not rely on any browser
> defaults and UTF-8 is the way forward as it does not limit the character
> set.
>
>
> Regards
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Allen Zhang <act...@gm...>
> *To:* htm...@li...
> *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2008 9:06 AM
> *Subject:* [htmltmpl] Help! Chinese character displaying problem
> usingHTML::TEMPLATE
>
> Hi all,
>
>     My cgi script using Html::Template having some error display Chinese
> Character.
>     I have set character set to gb2312, and the encoding character set was
> set to gb2312 too.
>     But in  that case, the "你好" wasn't displayed as expected.
>     However, I found that if I change the encoding character set of my *
> browser* to utf8, it displays perfectly.
>     Why ?
>     Most browsers in China were set to gb2312 encoding, I don't want users
> to manually change their
>     default setting to view my page.
>     What can I do?
>     Thanks!!
>
>
> cgi code:
> ##################################################
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use HTML::Template;
>
> my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'title.tpl.php');
> my $title = '你好';
> $template->param('title' => $title);
> *print header(-charset=>"gb2312");*
>
> print $template->output;
>
> template code:
> ##################################################
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">
> <meta name="description" content="">
> <meta name="keywords" content="">
> <title><TMPL_VAR NAME=title></title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <TMPL_VAR NAME=title>
> <br>
> Hello!
> <br>
> Hard code你好
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
>
>
> Allen Zhang
>
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Re: [htmltmpl] Help! Chinese character displaying problem using HTML::TEMPLATE

From: Brad B. <bm...@ma...> - 2008-03-14 12:45:32

Hello Allen,

You say this:
  - "I have set character set to gb2312,"
  - "the encoding character set was set to gb2312"

But in your cgi code, I don't see any of these:
  - use Encode;
  - decode(...
  - encode(...
  - open FH ">:encoding(...
  - use open ':encoding(...

So it looks like you aren't telling perl which encoding to use.

I'm not an encoding expert by any stretch, but I think that in the absence
of your telling perl which encoding to use, it is falling back on UTF-8 (but
I'd expect you to see 'wide character' warnings, so maybe I'm wrong).
This may be why it looks okay when you set your browser to UTF-8.

How to fix?  As I said, I'm no expert.  If I were you, I'd start reading
here:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html and follow all the links until it
starts
to make sense (I'm currently in the process of doing that--again--myself).

Hope that helps (hope I'm at least partly correct),

-- Brad


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Allen Zhang <act...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>     My cgi script using Html::Template having some error display Chinese
> Character.
>     I have set character set to gb2312, and the encoding character set was
> set to gb2312 too.
>     But in  that case, the "你好" wasn't displayed as expected.
>     However, I found that if I change the encoding character set of my *
> browser* to utf8, it displays perfectly.
>     Why ?
>     Most browsers in China were set to gb2312 encoding, I don't want users
> to manually change their
>     default setting to view my page.
>     What can I do?
>     Thanks!!
>
>
> cgi code:
> ##################################################
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use HTML::Template;
>
> my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'title.tpl.php');
> my $title = '你好';
> $template->param('title' => $title);
> *print header(-charset=>"gb2312");*
>
> print $template->output;
>
> template code:
> ##################################################
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">
> <meta name="description" content="">
> <meta name="keywords" content="">
> <title><TMPL_VAR NAME=title></title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <TMPL_VAR NAME=title>
> <br>
> Hello!
> <br>
> Hard code你好
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
>
>
> Allen Zhang
>
>