Re: Strange characters in output when filtered through mod_perl

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Aaron Hawryluk wrote:
> So, it can't be header... this is getting truly bizarre... The system
> default charset for the linux box is ISO-8859-1. MySQL is using  
> ISO-8859-1
> as its default charset.  Dunno what else to check.
>
> Here's another weird thing - the characters aren't showing up as  
> encoded
> entities under either regular CGI or mod_perl - they are actual raw
> characters, not escaped or encoded.  Under regular CGI, a caption  
> line shows
> up as:


This is odd.   I just tried going through some of my sites, and  
noticed that mod_perl was doing the same ( though the charset was set  
right , so i'd never notice a thing )

In my situation, Petal is returning » as \x{bb} - the perl  
internal for ">>".
The fix , for me, is to toss an encoder in there somewhere , and have  
it spit everything out for HTML.   mod_perl serves a » raw  
(without going through petal) just fine.

So I'd suggest looking at your templating engine - the issue might be  
that its using perl internals and expecting you to escape to html or  
another encoding scheme on your own.



// Jonathan Vanasco

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