All I can say is "it is not Perl's fault".
Using Windows-1252 encoding is weird, but not incorrect. If your desired content type is text/html, then the whole set of Unicode characters is available for you not only in UTF-8, but in any encoding supported by the browsers. Both HTML::Entities and Encode can do the necessary mapping of Unicode characters to Entities which are then plain ASCII strings and understood by the browsers.
I'm not going to defend the source code running this site either. I consider it pretty stale, but you can let software rot in about any programming language. In Perl, of course, the software will continue to run and run and run, as years go by.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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