Locale/UTF8 problem in firefox

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:48:55AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>   The DB is set to 'UTF8' encoding (see above). I am using perl, and 
> when I print the header I do:
> 
> eval 'use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBrowser"';
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> 	
> # Tell perl that we are printing UTF8
> binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
> 
>   But I will try changing to:
> 
> print "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8\n\n";
> 
>   <runs off to test> ... Nope, still screwed up. :(
> 
>  Here is what 'lynx -head http://localhost' shows:
> 
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:47:08 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu)
> Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:49:47 GMT
> ETag: "19018e-ea-a4b69cc0"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 234
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> 
>   I'll play around some more with the 'charset' command (and by play, I 
> mean "google". :) ). Any idea what I might be screwing up still? I'll 
> also pull the head meta tag, too.

Have you compared the string you sent to the DB with the string you
retrieve from the DB (do a verify read right after writing it)?  If the
strings match, then it must be an issue with how the script is sending
it to the browser, otherwise you have a problem with your method for
retreiving data from the database.

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Len Sorensen
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