[Petal] entity euro hurts

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

OK, I have a few insights on your problem.

>- prova.xhtml: doesn't contain any € or € entity, so the ø
>in København appears correctly.   is replaced with a blank (why,
>by the way?)
>
It should be replaced by a "Non Breakable SPace" character. This is what 
  means.
A   furiously looks like a space...

>- prova2.xhtml: contains €, which causes every entity to appear
>messed up.
>
The problem is the following:

In MKDoc/XML/Decode/XHTML.pm, euro points to the decimal value 8364. 
Since this is a unicode high value, Perl has to upgrade all your strings 
to unicode. Hence, whenever you use € symbol the resulting string 
will be UTF-8 rather than latin1.

If you want to be sure that your template is _ALWAYS_ latin1, you have 
to use the 'Encode' module as follows:

use Encode;
my $string = $template->process (%stuff);
$string = Encode::encode ('ISO-8859-1', $string);


>- prova3.xhtml: contains €;, which causes every entity to appear
>messed up (except actually for the € itself, which remains as it
>but I just can't see it the browser (console only).
>
I don't know which character you used for prova3.xhtml, but it appears 
very broken. I open the file in mozilla and wether I use latin-1 or 
UTF-8 to view your example, it doesn't work properly. I suspect this 
third template is broken.

>If I use an ø instead of &oslash for København that is printed just
>fine regardless of what I do with Euro. The problems come when I
>use entities in the &entityname; form. Moreover,   never works
>as it should. ;-)
>
Actually it does. It simply replaces it with its corresponding character.