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LWP::Simple is it get decoded or not ?

by remiah (Hermit)
on Aug 10, 2012 at 10:16 UTC ( [id://986710]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

remiah has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monks.

Today I uploaded my perl program to my server. My local perl is 5.12.2 and server'perl is 5.8.8. And I met strange problem. LWP::Simple'get() function gives me decoded utf8 characters with my 5.12.2 local machine. But 5.8.8 machine gives me not decoded utf8 bytes. Each version of LWP::Simple is 5.835(local) and 5.810(server).

In get() function, LWP::Simple calls HTTP::Response's "decoded_content" method. Document of CPAN says

"This will return the content after any Content-Encoding and charsets have been decoded."

I guess there was some change for HTTP::Response's decoded _content. Does anyone met the same situation? Maybe,

$html=utf8::is_utf8($html) ? $html : decode('utf8', $html);
will solve my problem, but I would like to hear from monk's opinion.

regards.( I am sorry for my poor english)

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Re: LWP::Simple is it get decoded or not ?
by rpnoble419 (Pilgrim) on Aug 10, 2012 at 13:28 UTC
      thanks for reply rpnoble419.

      I will read through perluniintro, perlunicode anyway. This time, really.

      i became a little bit nervous for decoding, encoding way of each modules now.

      dbd::sqlite gives me decoded character if i set sqlite_unicode to 1, but they seems automatically encode characters to bytes when i put characters to database regardless of sqlite_unicode switch. it gives me no warnings when i put decoded characters to databases when i don't use sqlite_unicode. i thought dbd::ado gave me warning... wasn't it ?

      when i pass decoded characters to template toolkit, i pass binmode switch to proccess function. For "decoding" template file it self, I am using Template::Provider::Encoding.

      And now LWP::Simple... It seems I am stumbling all unicode stones.

      It was version difference of LWP::Simple to get decoded character or not decoded bytes.

      5.810 of LWP::Simple doesn't use decoded_content() but it uses content() method. On the other hand 5.835 uses decoded_content() method, so it returns decoded character.

      I decided to use useragent and decoded_content explicitly, to work with each enviornment. Below is test script with LWP::Simple 5.810

      thanks a lot.

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