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Author Need help on Chinese registration form
Daniel Chan

2004-09-02, 8:55 pm

I am working on the Chinese registration form, first time I do that, but
have a lot of questions.

1) The user will type in Chinese character, simple, on my form but how will
I know if I am capturing the Chinese character correctly so that I can save
to a flat file.
2) The submitted data will be saved to a tab delimited flat file. We will
just open the flat with excel to view the data. The question is how can I
save the data to the flat file so that I can view the Chinese character in
excel? I tried to copy and paste some Chinese character in note pad then
open with excel. It works if I save the file in Unicode format.
3) My perl cgi script will display some Chinese message interactively. I
have a lot of problem when I tried to embed Chinese character with my code.

Please help.

Daniel



Wiggins d Anconia

2004-09-02, 8:55 pm

>
> I am working on the Chinese registration form, first time I do that, but
> have a lot of questions.
>
> 1) The user will type in Chinese character, simple, on my form but how

will
> I know if I am capturing the Chinese character correctly so that I can

save
> to a flat file.
> 2) The submitted data will be saved to a tab delimited flat file. We will
> just open the flat with excel to view the data. The question is how can I
> save the data to the flat file so that I can view the Chinese character in
> excel? I tried to copy and paste some Chinese character in note pad then
> open with excel. It works if I save the file in Unicode format.
> 3) My perl cgi script will display some Chinese message interactively. I
> have a lot of problem when I tried to embed Chinese character with my

code.
>


You should probably start by reviewing:

http://perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod/perluniintro.html
http://perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod/perlunicode.html

Which will cover unicode details as they relate to Perl. From there the
only thing I know that you will need to do differently in CGI is to
specify a charset back to the browser (though I could be wrong).

Have you been through those docs? Always the best way is to dive in and
give it a shot, then ask more specific questions...

http://danconia.org

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