Thanks for reply.
Problematic string came from chr(). I didn't know I can paste 'é' at PerlMonk, I tried to create it with chr(hex()). And I stumbled.
The OP of this thread Bug in Template? said he decode with database driver and print it in Template with like this.
my $t =Template->new();
$t->process("his.tmpl", {lines=>\@vars}, "output.html" )
or die $t->error();
Template wants encoded bytes, not decoded characters. This prints "#�#".
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode qw(decode encode);
use Template;
my($a,$decoded);
#input bytes to $a
$a=`perl -CS -e "use utf8;print 'é'"`;
#decode it to character
$decoded=decode('UTF-8', $a);
#this will print replacement character to test_out1.html
my $t=Template->new();
$t->process("test.tmpl",{a=>$decoded},"test_out1.html");
And below is Template for that.
<html>
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
+>
</head>
<body>
#[% a %]#
</body>
</html>
Encode $a to bytes will work.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode qw(decode encode);
use Template;
my($a,$decoded,$encoded);
#input bytes to $a
$a=`perl -CS -e "use utf8;print 'é'"`;
#decode it to character
$decoded=decode('UTF-8', $a);
$encoded=encode('UTF-8', $decoded);
#this is good
my $t=Template->new();
$t->process("test.tmpl",{a=>$encoded},"test_out2.html");
There seems huge confusion around Template Tool Kit's Encoding problem here in Japan. My conclusion so far: "pass encoded bytes to Template, not decoded character".
