handle special characteres?

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hi all,
I am facing this issue in rendering the special characters on the HTML screen...
one of my callout from the new DCR screen is showing special characters as junk characters..
this callout makes a sql query and brings up following results:

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while showing in the HTML it shows junk characters like a 'square' for characters 'å' and '?' for 'örvä'

I am using following code to render them on HTML:

my $html_services;
open(HTML_SERVICES, "<$HTML_SERVICES_PATH");
while( <HTML_SERVICES> ) {
$html_services .= $_;
}
close(HTML_SERVICES);

# Substituting values in the html.
$html_services =~ s|__SVC_AREA_OPTIONS__|$svc_area_options|g;


any comments?

my env:TS 6.5
win2k3 ent edition

thx in advance...

Adam Stoller

Two thoughts come to mind:

• First - change: open(HTML_SERVICES, "<$HTML_SERVICES_PATH");to: open(HTML_SERVICES, '<:utf8', "$HTML_SERVICES_PATH");
• Second, make sure that your browser is set to use UTF-8 encoding (actually, you might be able to do that with a meta tag too - but I don't remember the syntax off-hand)

Hope that helps.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com