Re: [Slashcode-general] portald and RDFs with german Umlauts

[Stefan S. <ze...@ze...>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:19:04PM +0300, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> 
> One of the point of Slash is to have less-computer-literated people work
> with the system with no troubles. Asking them to change characters they
> have on their keyboard with HTML entities is not very popular and
> probably not useful. Is it possible/reasonable to have a conversion from
> special chars to entities built in the admin interface?
> 

Using HTML::Entities all this is no problem at all (despite the work to
use it consistently ... ;-) ).
Just do a decode_entities() followed by a encode_entities() for every
text-input.
Sure it would be better to *not* store HTML-entities in the DB. With
encode_entities() you could generate them everytime some text from the
db ist to be sent over HTTP.

But all of this doesn't have to do anything with the problem I have:
encode_entities() can't convert UTF-8 encoded strings :-(
And I still think that XML::Parser returns all strings in UTF-8 after
doing a parse() regardless the encoding of the strings before.
If you still don't believe have a look at http://wurbel.spline.de and
select the "Heise Newsticker"-box from "Benutzeraccount" on the left.

(And for sure p.e. mozilla can display umlauts without the need for them
being encoded)

Greets
	Steve