Showing â,ô etc in HTML

[COMSCBoy]

This program reads in a sentence. It then takes out all the a^ o^ etc out, cos some people may use them to do â or ô etc cos they don't know how. It then changes it to the \xe2 equiv so that a spell checker can check it, and display the correct result. I've started byt changing â, cos i forgot to put "" instead of ''. Use the â as example.

use strict ;


use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
  
use HTML::Template;
use Data::Dumper;

use Unicode::String;


my $q = new CGI;




sub accentmatch()
{
    my $brawddeg = shift;
    $brawddeg =~ s/([aeiouwy][\"\^\`\/])/utf($1)/ge;
    
    return $brawddeg;
    
}


sub utf()
{
    my $acen = shift;
    my $transacen;
    
    my %conv = ('a^'=>"\xe2",  'e^'=>'\x0EA',  'i^'=>'\x0EE',  'o^'=>"
+\x0f4",  'u^'=>'\0FB',  'w^'=>"\x175",   'y^'=>'\x177',
            'a"'=>'\x0E4',  'e"'=>'\x0EB',  'i"'=>'\x0EF',  'o"'=>'\x0
+F6',  'u"'=>'\0FC',  'w"'=>'\x1E85',  'y"'=>'\xff',
            'a/'=>'\x0E1',  'e/'=>'\x0E9',  'i/'=>'\x0ED',  'o/'=>'\x0
+F3',  'u/'=>'\0FA',  'w/'=>'\x1E83',  'y/'=>'\xfd',
            'a\''=>'\x0E0', 'e\''=>'\x0E8', 'i\''=>'\x0EC', 'o\''=>'\x
+0F2', 'u\''=>'\0F9', 'w\''=>'\x1E81', 'y\''=>'\x1EF3',
            'A^'=>'\x0C2',  'E^'=>'\x0CA',  'I^'=>'\x0CE',  'O^'=>'\x0
+D4',  'U^'=>'\0DB',  'W^'=>'\x174',   'Y^'=>'\x176',
            'A"'=>'\x0C4',  'E"'=>'\x0CB',  'I"'=>'\x0CF',  'O"'=>'\x0
+D6',  'U"'=>'\0DC',  'W"'=>'\x1E84',  'Y"'=>'\x178',
            'A/'=>'\x0C1',  'E/'=>'\x0C9',  'I/'=>'\x0CD',  'O/'=>'\x0
+D3',  'U/'=>'\0DA',  'W/'=>'\x1E82',  'Y/'=>'\xdd',
            'A\''=>'\x0C0', 'E\''=>'\x0C8', 'I\''=>'\x0CC', 'O\''=>'\x
+0D2', 'U\''=>'\0D9', 'W\''=>'\x1E80', 'Y\''=>'\x1EF2');
    
    die unless $conv{$acen};
    
    return( $conv{$acen} );
}

But if I enter words like tân, i get t(square thing - the cannot diplay symbol symbol). Any ideas? Thanks for your help. P.s. I know I don't need most of the stuff at the top but ignore that.

[Abigail-II]

"\xe2" is one character in Perl. â to be precise. But "\x0f4" are two characters - it's equivalent to "\x0f" . "4". And '\x0C8' are four characters. You probably want "\x{1E80}" etc.

That doesn't solve the problem for tân though. But then, you could have made other mistakes in the rest of your program. But why don't you look which character is actually in your HTML?

Abigail

[hacker]

How about using the ISO 8859-1 character set overview or the ISO 8859-1 Characters List and do it directly with HTML?

Char  Decimal   Hex      Entity
--------------------------------
à     224       e0       à
á     225       e1       á
â     226       e2       â
ã     227       e3       ã
ä     228       e4       ä
å     229       e5       å
æ     230       e6       æ

...and so on.