Alden Bates (abates) wrote,
Alden Bates
abates

Perl help needed

Here's my problem. I have a plugin I've written for Movable Type, which takes the page MT generates and splits it up into a bunch of subpages. The problem is that in doing this all the UTF8 characters get boned and converted into US-ASCII or something.

For instance, ß, which in UTF8 is 0xC39F, turns into 0xDF.

How do I get it to stop doing this? For the short term, I have inserted calls to utf8::encode from the UTF8 module before I write the string out, to convert them back to UTF8, however I'd really like to fix the thing so it doesn't convert the strings to US-ASCII in the first place.

From what I can tell, Perl does something to mark strings as UTF8 somehow, so I should maybe do something along those lines? I don't know.
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