[SVN] HTML output encoding (was: licenses, redistributing perl)

[Allan Odgaard]

On Feb 19, 2005, at 19:51, Eric Hsu wrote:

>> What is wrong with doing the entity substitution inline instead of 
>> calling encode_entities?
> Your version caught <'s, but I was trying to faithfully reproduce the 
> range of entities, like symbols and accented characters.  Much to my 
> surprise, on further testing, your simple version preserved these much 
> better than the encoding-processed version. I guess HTML::Entities 
> doesn't encode Mac characters (or utf-8?) characters particularly 
> well.

Yes, the HTML::Entities function would probably need to be given an 
input encoding to really work, not sure what their default is. PHP has 
the same “problem”.

> I reverted to the inline version and made the HTML declare a utf-8 
> encoding.

Okay, I do expect all output from shell commands to be in utf-8 and 
it's not necessary to actually declare this encoding for HTML output.