#9 Encoding charset

[Normando Hall]

I have found one bug, because I use spanish characters, and not showed correctly via web.

In the file ezmlm-www.pl, the line 549 should be:

binmode STDOUT, ':utf-8';

instead of

binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';

Greeting

Normando Hall

[Alessandro Ranellucci]

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perldoc -f binmode actually says :utf8 without the hyphen so I guess it's correct as it is.

Which characters are not showed correctly? The interface strings or the message contents? Can you provide a URL to your ezmlm-www setup?

[Normando Hall]

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The problem is in the message content. Example:

Está funcionando bien

should be

Está funcionando bien

Changing only this line I fix the problem.

Try at:

http://www.unixlan.com.ar/list/index.cgi?0::5

I have undo the changes for you so you can see the problem.

[Alessandro Ranellucci]

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Then I'm not able to debug as it may be caused by the formatting and headers of the message itself. ezmlm-www is reported to work well with many alphabets (Italian and even Chinese), so we need a stronger test case before accepting a bug related to the way it handles Unicode.

binmode definitely needs ':utf8'. I guess that by using 'utf-8' you're instead just disabling the Unicode output filter. Feel free to patch it how it works for you, but this doesn't look as a bug unless a stronger and more detailed failing test case is provided. Closing.

[Normando Hall]

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Alex, I have commeted this line and work ok, so I think there is no necesary to re-encode again because perl always use UTF-8 as say in perldoc -f binmode:

"...The ":encoding" also implicitly pushes on top of itself the ":utf8" layer because internally Perl will operate on UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters..."

[Normando Hall]

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Well...

I have commented aou the line 549: binmode STDOUT, ':utf-8';
and now run ok.