Hi,
On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Tobias Kremer wrote:
Following up on a conversion I started on the DateTime mailing-list
I'd like to
ask if it is really neccessary to use C::P::Unicode if a site uses
utf8-encoding?
I have the problem that up until now everything worked absolutely
fine without
C::P::Unicode, Template::Stash::ForceUTF8,
Template::Provider::Encoding or any
other unicode plugin because I believed that if everything is utf8
you don't
really have to worry about it that much.
Now I recently incorporated DateTime::Locale to get a list of
localized month
names. Spitting them out in my templates revealed a <questionmark>
symbol
instead of all german umlauts. I took a look at DateTime::Locale
and everything
seems to be correct (use utf8 at the top, etc) so this can't be the
culprit.
encode("utf8")-ing the month names makes them look correct. I asked
about this
on the DateTime mailing list and everybody suggested a truckload of
plugins to
incorporate in Catalyst which _ALL_ break everything else on my
site except the
month names which are displayed fine then. It looks like everything
gets
encoded twice when utilizing these plugins.
So I must admit I'm stuck with this. What is the best-practice for
dealing with
Catalyst and utf8? Do I really need C::P::Unicode to make this work
correctly?
What about the various TT plugins? And why the heck is everything
double utf8
encoded when using these plugins that everybody else seems to use?
I must admit that I'm in the "it works for me but don't ask me why"-
camp at the moment.
A combination of:
* DBIC and making sure output from text fields is UTF8
(utf8_columns() is your friend, but depending on the DB, you might
need more than that);
* Catalyst::View::TT::ForceUTF8;
* Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode
with those three, and making sure my TT templates are in UTF8 (no BOM
was injured) I haven't had any problems, even with DateTime with a
PT_pt locale.
Also if you use open(), make sure you use the three argument version,
and stick '<:utf8' in the middle arg.
This works for *me*, but I haven't had the time to understand it
totally. And I would love someone to tell me that there is a simpler
way.
Sincerely I would hope Cat to be utf8-by-default around version 6...
Best regards,
--
Pedro Melo
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