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Re^2: UTF8 URI Escaping

by Eliya (Vicar)
on Apr 12, 2012 at 03:31 UTC ( [id://964688]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: UTF8 URI Escaping
in thread UTF8 URI Escaping

...would have saved you all that lost time and plenty more in the future.

Don't overestimate what some modules do :)

URI::Escape::uri_unescape() does exactly the same substitution the OP posted, i.e. it also has exactly the same issues.

For one, it doesn't decode the UTF-8 encoded string into a single Unicode character. Rather, it just returns the two octets \xc2 \xa3 (which the OP seems to have some problem with...).  In other words, your sample would only work with a UTF-8 capable terminal, which is rendering the glyph '£' when it receives the two bytes c2 a3.

$ perl -MURI::Escape -le 'print uri_unescape("%C2%A3")' | od -tx1 0000000 c2 a3 0a 0000003

And, as Devel::Peek::Dump shows, the returned string isn't decoded (a Perl Unicode string):

$ perl -MURI::Escape -MDevel::Peek -e 'Dump uri_unescape("%C2%A3")' SV = PVMG(0x1762450) at 0x16ceff0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,pPOK) IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0x16e5c90 "\302\243"\0 CUR = 2 LEN = 8

This is exactly the same result the OP had achieved with his original code.

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Re^3: UTF8 URI Escaping
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 12, 2012 at 03:59 UTC

    Yes, yes. Quite right. Too glossy there, though if the output layer was right, it would have been fine, and I would also have -utf8 flag in the CGI, with proper encodings on the layers and the HTTP headers, or decoding manually the input, or Encoding::Unicode in the Catalyst plugin list, or… The real point being rolling your own can bite seasoned devs, it *will* bite neophytes and create maintenance nightmares for, well, me because I seem to inherit an endless stream of code written in this style.

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