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in thread Wierd behaviour with HTML::Entities::decode_entities()

If HTML::Entities were to decode " to ", it would be buggy. I did understand you correctly. Does what I said make more sense now?

I wonder if decode_entities (not decode_entities_old) handles it correctly?

I don't know if that's legal in SGML/HTML — unescaped ampersand — but yes. 

$ perl -MHTML::Entities -le'print decode_entities """'
"

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Re^7: Wierd behaviour with HTML::Entities::decode_entities()
by Baz (Friar) on Dec 14, 2009 at 19:05 UTC
    You can test with this - 
    
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w
+3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="sv" lang="sv">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-885
+9-1"/>
</head>
<body>

Mic i vĀr replokal &amp;quot;The Dungeon&amp;quot;

</body>
</html>

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    Now it very clear what the problem is...
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      If you get

      Mic i vĀr replokal &amp;quot;The Dungeon&amp;quot;

      and you're expecting

      Mic i vĀr replokal "The Dungeon"

      the problem is on their end. As you can see by loading that page in a browser,

      Mic i vĀr replokal &amp;quot;The Dungeon&amp;quot;

      means

      Mic i vĀr replokal &quot;The Dungeon&quot;

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