Re: [htmltmpl] HTML::Template support for Unicode

[Sven N. <sve...@sv...>]

Erik van Konijnenburg schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:58 +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
>> Erik van Konijnenburg schrieb:
>>> This is to propose for inclusion in HTML::Template a patch that
>>> adds unicode support.
>>> If the template file happens to contain Unicode already, this breaks:
>>> the bytes making up an UTF-8 character are fed to the Latin => unicode
>>> transformation, and you end up with characters that are encoded twice.
>> I have seen this problem "in the wild", too.
>>
>>> There are some ways to handle this situation:
>> There is another way that is not quite as inconvenient: You can pass a
>> filehandle to the constructor:
>>
>>    open($fh, '<:utf8', 'template-file');
>>    my $t = HTML::Template->new(filehandle => $fh);
> Yep, that would work, provided you don't need include files.

Now that you mention it, I guess the TMPL_INCLUDE tag would need an 
attribute "encoding" to allow mixed setups. Or is that more of a 
hypothetical scenario?

Thanks,
-Sven