Bug#787821: libhtml-parser-perl: encode_entities() convert chars to à instead of their proper entity

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:34:42 +0200, Mathieu ROY wrote:

> Ok, so after further testing, it turns out that if I change the coding of the 
> string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859..., it encode to the proper entities.

Good.
 
> I obviously can adjust the script to pre convert UTF-8 to ISO-8859 

Or just add "use utf8;" to your script if it contains utf8-encoded
strings.

> but it 
> should be at least documented (but I dont see any reason why encode_entities 
> should actually not be able to deal with UTF-8)

That's how encoding in perl works in general, and I'm sure it's
documented somewhere :)
(I just don't find the correct perldoc right now ...)


Cheers,
gregor
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