>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Hello, List-ers -- >> >> I've come across a problem, unsure where to ask, so >> subscribed here. I upload a file through a browser. It's a >> '.txt' file and it comes as text/html. >> >> However, I've found some hyphen and single-quote like >> characters that are in this text file are from a higher >> codepoint... or something. What _seems_ to happen is the >> browser is stripping them and my script isn't getting all the >> info to dump into my database.
[8<] >> > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Statland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The characters that you are describing, may need to be > escaped or have their codes entered. > It sounds like that they may have special meanings in either > the scripting language or in the html output. Hmm. I guess my question wasn't clear. The issue is a file upload that is tagged as text/html but has wide characters in it. The file doesn't make it out of the browser right AFAICT. (If this is obviously incorrect, please post the correction!) A little more pain and research let me to find this: open F, '<', $ARGV[0] or die $!; for (<F>){ s/([^\x00-\x7f])/sprintf('&#%d;', ord($1))/ge; print } ... helpful code snippet, which applied to my files before they are uploaded gives me a new text file with lines like: "Regarding the box – the driver wouldn’t". The cool part is that it is uploaded fully and when viewed in a browser the characters are displayed correctly. Duh. Now, if I could only get the browser to fix it up like this when sending... rather than what it was doing. Since it's going to a *nix box, I don't care about the text/binary thing, right? I guess I could test from a 'nix Firefox and see if the behaviour is different. Anyone have a thought on what is happening that the browser upload fails to accommodate text with wide chars? I don't know how it determines ... maybe if the first char was wide, it'd go up as a different mimetype? Cheers, Michael Higgins -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
