Re: [Pagekit-devel] Character conversions

[Boris Z. <bo...@2b...>]

Hi Gabriel,

this is hopfully already fixed. With this patch, that works only for perl 5.8. 
Perl 5.6.1 should be fine already. I hope the patch applied clean. please let 
me know.

The reason for your double conversion is that perl now converts some strings 
to utf8 but Text::Iconv did not notice that and convert it again. So we 
remove T::I for perl 5.8.

Maybe we should have a patchpage where all this fixes have a little 
description and a tarball?

Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 21:23 schrieb Gabriel Burca:
> 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?

-- 
Boris