Encoding changed from Greek to somethign else

[Nik]

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[ikegami]

Your document claims its encoded using iso‑8859‑1, but that's wrong.

Judging by the repetition patterns when viewed as iso‑8859‑1, it's actually encoded using a multi-byte encoding such as UTF-8. iso‑8859‑* are single-byte encodings.

The most likely encoding would be UTF‑8. However, when viewed as UTF‑8, you still see the telltale repetition pattern of a multi-byte encoding.

I suspect you did the equivalent of

print(encode('UTF-8', encode('UTF-8', $s)));

[daxim]

You mention Notepad.

1. case - you have your data all as hardcoded string in index.pl

Include the pragma use utf8; in the index.pl. Make sure to select UTF-8 encoding when saving the file.

2. case - you have your data in an outside file

I assume your data is in Windows-1253. When reading it into variables, decode it. Or handle the decoding automatically through an IO layer during opening the file:

open my $fh, '<:encoding(windows-1253)', 'filename.dat' or die "could 
+not open filename.dat for reading: $!";

When writing the XHTML out:
• Set the proper HTTP header.

  header('Content-Type' => 'application/xml+xhtml;charset=UTF-8');
  

• Encode all text and variable contents that's going out to produce the web page:

  binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
  

• Set the proper XML PI.

  print '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
  

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[Anonymous Monk]

Its Greek to you, huh? lol

[Nik]

Actuall we Greeks, when something is weird to us we say "This all sounds Chinese to me" :) while the other people non Greeks claims its all Greek to them...

[Anonymous Monk]

Ur right, this isn't a PERL problem but I'll help you anyway. You need to reverse the polarity on the inputted file. For this you need either a Hydrospanner (I don't think one exists wich is written in PERL, but there are ones in PHP, which is a better language anyway so just use that) or the SonicScrewdriver program written by Linus Torvalds, you can get it at www.fsf.org.

BTW I think ur site has been transmogrified?