Re^5: HTML::Parser, file, print to Terminal

[moritz]

The snippet you show is encoded in UTF-8.

Next step: determine the encoding of the file in which umlauts display correctly on your terminal.

Or even better: configure a clean UTF-8 enivronment.

I suppose the confusion lies in => if I create the file, I get my Latin-1. If I didn't create the file, there is only ASCII.

I'm confused indeed. If you don't create a file, it doesn't exist, neither with ASCII nor with UTF-8.

Speaking of confusion, I think you try to achieve too much in one step. For example the title of your question metions HTML::Parser, which doesn't appear in the posting at all.

So, small steps:

• Make sure you know which encoding your terminal understands. There's no point in proceeding before you have done this step.
• Find out what encodings your source files are. Seems to be UTF-8.
• In your perl scripts, decode everything coming from the outside (except when a module does it for you), and encode everything. use utf8;, and write your program files in UTF-8.
• If something doesn't work, find out where you violate any of the points of the previous steps.

[victor_charlie]

Okay, this DOES work...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# legaget.pl

use strict;

use Encode;

my $filename = "engleword.html";


open FILE, "<", $filename or die $1;

while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
    
    print encode( "utf8",$line);

}

close(FILE);

What I have learned...

• use utf8; is for Unicode source code, filenames, deals with legacy stuff, not for encoding.
• I still have to grab the html and write to a file, I would still like to encode the string in place. Maybe later.

I have come across this encode problem as a graphic artist. Customers used MSWord to generate text and then pasted the resulting text into html, or Adobe Pagemaker, PDF, etc. and everything is just hunky-dory on a WinBox, but on a Mac or Linux the results had missing characters. MS was late adopting Unicode. MS thought they had another answer with OpenType (I think it was) a fonts technology in partnership with Adobe. That fell apart. But in pre-XP MS text products the first byte set the encode for the text file. I used to have a FreeWare program on the PC that manually changed that byte.

Forgive me, I worked on this silly problem all day, but I'm loving Perl.