Re: [MacPerl] HTML Character Conversion

[Matt Henderson <matt@exponet.net>]

On 12/19/98 9:10 PM, Chris Nandor (pudge@pobox.com) wrote:

> Look at HTML::Entities.  That might do it.

Hmmm..., well, I gave it a shot:

     use HTML::Entities;
     $output_line = encode_entities($input_line);

This code translated the character � to the code , while the BBEdit 
Format tool translates the same character to the code ù.

Only the latter code, ù renders the proper character in Netscape. 
The former code,  and the one returned by HTML::Entities renders as 
no specific character in Netscape.

Interestingly, 157 is the ASCII decimal code for �, while 249 is the HTML 
decimal code for the same character. I'm just learning Perl, so I 
couldn't fully follow the Entities.pm code that well, but is seems that 
the encoding uses the chr() function, which I suppose returns the decimal 
ASCII code for the character. How could it be modified to return the HTML 
code? (And why are they different?)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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