Thanks for the hint, Mike, that leads me to try displaying it on Netscape
6.2. And it works!! I had previously tried on IE5.5. As advised, IE6 should
be offering better service. Thanks to all who replied my mail.
Will
-----Original Message-----
From: michael monaghan [mailto:michael(_dot_)monaghan(_at_)sun(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:47 PM
To: Tay, William
Cc: 'perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org'
Subject: Re: Problem displaying UTF8 characters in HTML generated by a
Perl script
Tay,
I'm not sure about your code, but you can quickly check if it's a font
problem by going to http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html .
This page, encoded in utf-8, displays many languages (including
Russian). If the Russian renders correctly, then it's not a font
issue.........
BTW: In my experience, a recent OS with a recent browser - NS7/IE6
generally takes care of font display issues.
-mm
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http://sun.com/globalization/
Tay, William wrote:
Hi,
I am developing a Web application using Perl and a database. The Perl
script is responsible for getting data from the database and then
generate a HTML page. The data to be retrieved is encoded in UTF8.
Here's part of my script:
...
print( start_html( { -head=>meta({-http_equiv=>'Content-Type',
-content=>'text/html; charset=utf-8'}), ...
...
# Get data from DB
print( "<select name = \"Games\">\n" );
while ( @row = $statementHandle->fetchrow_array() ) {
print( "<option>" );
print( "$row[ 2 ]. $row[ 1 ], $row[ 0 ]" );
$test="$row[ 2 ]. $row[ 1 ], $row[ 0 ]";
print( "</option>" );
}
print( "</select>\n" );
print( h2($test) );
...
$test contains some Russian characters encoded in UTF8. On display, it
showed up as thick bars in the list box. However, print( h2($test)
) shows the correct Russian characters. I am wondering if it is a font
problem. But if it is, why should the latter be displayed correctly?
Would appreciate your comments and help.
Will
