Marco Baroni <baroni(_at_)sslmit(_dot_)unibo(_dot_)it> writes:
A few days ago, I queried this list about my problems with a script
that finds the charset of Japanese web pages and translates their text
into utf-8.
The following solution, proposed by Nick Ing-Simmons, worked for my
case:
binmode STDOOUT,":utf8";
my $encoding = find_encoding($charset);
my $unicode = $encoding->decode($text);
Run HTML::FormatText here with chars in Unicode.
print $unicode;
($charset is the charset as extracted from the html code of the page
and $text is all the text from the page itself, as returned by the LWP
agent.)
Thanks a lot to Nick and to all the others who responded to my plea for
help.
Now for a much less pressing issue: Does anybody know of something
similar to the HTML::FormatText module that can take utf-8 input, and
generate utf-8 output?
Doubt it. But if you run it on Unicode chars (as indicated above)
then unless it is doing something too clever it should just work.
In other words, of a module or command line tool
to which I could feed my Japanese html pages, or html documents in
other non-Latin alphabets, and get nicely formatted plain utf-8 text as
output?
(HTML::FormatText seems to break with utf-8 and with the Japanese
encodings.)
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Marco
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Marco Baroni
University of Bologna
http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni
