dbi_encoding_high_bit_characters_in_html

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   Kevin Stock (KStock@corp.auspex.com)
   Wed, 04 Nov 1998 17:02:21 +0100

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   Fall Birahim wrote:

   > > Kevin Stock [SMTP:KStock@corp.auspex.com] wrote:

   > > > My project is about questionairefrom www by using
   > > > mysql and dbi.  I have difficulty in screening the
   > > > questions because these includes <,>,-,=,\,/and so
   > > > on. I thought that I can store my data in html
   > > > format so when I print them from a perl program
   > > > they can be displayed but since the questions will
   > > > be entred from www. so I need a filter that
   > > > converts a text to html ...(little bit long a)
   > > > 
   > > > Is there anything that can help me?
   > >
   > > This isn't really a dbi question, but...
   > >
   > > s/&/&nbsp;/g <--- this one must be first
   > > s/</&lt;/g
   > > etc

   > Shoudn't it be
   > s/&/&amp;/g <--- this one must be first
   > 
   > instead of
   > s/&/&nbsp;/g <--- this one must be first
   > 
   > &amp; is the hml scape for ampersand!

   Correct, sorry. Just a typo to see if you're all awake :-)

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   Randal Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com)
   05 Nov 1998 07:50:57 -0700

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   >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Stock <KStock@corp.auspex.com> writes:


   >> &amp; is the hml scape for ampersand!

   Kevin> Correct, sorry. Just a typo to see if you're all awake :-)
           

   And the right way to do it so that you don't do the wrong
   things, and also handle all the high-bit chars correctly,
   is this:

   use HTML::Entities;
   $escaped = encode_entities($raw);

   :-)

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