Re: [MacPerl] HTML Character Conversion

[Jean-Charles BERTIN <jc.bertin@mipsys.com>]

>On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:01:18 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>
>>At 19.29 -0500 1998.12.19, Brian McNett wrote:
>>>Cris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Look at HTML::Entities.  That might do it.
>>>
>>>Almost, not quite:
>>>
>>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>
>>>> The decode_entities() routine replaces valid HTML entities found
>>>> in the string with the corresponding ISO-8859/1 character.
>>>
>>>ISO-8859/1 is somewhat at odds with the Mac character set (or
>>>vice-versa).  However, this could be rather quickly modified to do the
>>>job.
>>
>>Yep. Someone should do a HTML::Entities::Mac module, or make new
>functions
>>for the existing module and submit them for inclusion.  IMO.
>
>I thought someone already did. I seem to recall that someone posted a
>patch many months ago to do this. But if memory serves, people also
>commented that the ISO font was easily available, and that people doing
>Web work simply installed the font.. I thought the ISO font was defined in
>the appropriate standards as the One True Font? If so using it seems a
>reasonable thing to do.
>
>>
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I wrote the Mac<->Latin1(ISO) in the module MIME-tools-4.121 for MacPerl 
(See the modified MIME::Latin1) which could be moved in HTML::Entities...
I used the Eudora conversion tables which are bijectives, so it would do 
the job well...
You can find my modified MIME-tools-4.121 at 
<ftp://ftp.mipsys.com/JCB/perl/MIME-tools-4.121.sit.hqx>


Jean-Charles BERTIN           <mailto:jc.bertin@mipsys.com>
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