DCRs storing UTF-8 in hex vs decimal

bagman

TS 6.1 on Solaris

Apparently there are two flavors of UTF-8, decimal and hex. It appears our DCRs are storing decimal, while our apps are wanting hex.

For instance, "Español". In the DCR and resulting page it comes out as "Espa\303\261ol", which is valid. However, I need it to come out in the hex value of "Espa� 0F1;ol". (space added)

Is there a way to set how it's stored in the DCR? Or does someone know of a Perl function I can use to convert it? I've tried some stuff with Encode, but haven't been successful with it.

Any help is appreciated.

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TS 6.1 on Solaris Apparently there are two flavors of UTF-8, decimal and hex. It appears our DCRs are storing decimal, while our apps are wanting hex. For instance, "Español". In the DCR and resulting page it comes out as "Espa\303\261ol", which is valid. However, I need it to come out in the hex value of "Espa� 0F1;ol". (space added) Is there a way to set how it's stored in the DCR? Or does someone know of a Perl function I can use to convert it? I've tried some stuff with Encode, but haven't been successful with it. Any help is appreciated.

For conversion look into html::entities Class, html::entities::decode and html::entities::encode_entities_numeric.

Btw, there are no Dec/Hex "flavors" of UTF-8. There are however so called "Code Points" (Unicode Numeric Codes) and
various notations (escape, \u-escape, XML Numeric Entities and whatnot) to represent Unicode symbols by codes.

For example, in one and the only UTF-8 British Pound Sign is represented by two bytes £ (Hexadecimal String 0xC2A3).
163₁₀ = A3₁₆ is the "code point" of Pound Sign, so in the XML Numeric Entities notation you can write £ or £

Render the following with your browser to see what I mean[html]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />


£ &#163; &#xA3;
[/html]

CurrencyFormats.rptdesign