[Pagekit-devel] Character conversions

[Gabriel B. <gbu...@eb...>]

PageKit v1.10 (checked out of CVS on Nov 29th).
Perl 5.8
HTML::Template 2.6 (see below)
HTML::FillInForm 1.0 (see below)


In the model code I have:
	$model->fillinform(key => $utf8_string);
	$model->output(key => $utf8_string);

In the template I have:
	<input type="text" name="key">
	<MODEL_VAR NAME="key">
	<CONTENT_VAR NAME="some_utf-8">

Config.xml
	default_input_charset = "UTF-8"
	default_output_charset = "UTF-8"

The form field and <CONTENT_VAR ...> contains the correct unicode
characters. If I try to display the same characters using <MODEL_VAR
...> on the same page, it looks like the characters get converted to
unicode twice (a single 2-byte unicode character shows up as two
characters).

I've patched both HTML::FillInForm and HTML::Template and replaced .=
with sprintf "%s%s". That was before I realized the problem only occurs
when using <MODEL_VAR ...>. The View.pm _preparse_model_tags sub has the
"use bytes;" fix.

This might be the same problem reported by Leo Cambilargiu in the "Odd
Characters" thread. Did anyone figure out that problem? Any ideas of
where the double-conversion might be happening?

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