Template::Plugin::Ligature - Typographic ligature filter for TT
This document describes Template::Plugin::Ligature version 0.03.
Template:
[% USE Ligature %] [% FILTER ligature %] Offloading floral offices refines effectiveness. [% END %]
Output:
Offloading floral offices refines effectiveness.
This is a Template::Toolkit plugin to filter text, replacing sequences of characters with corresponding typographic ligatures using Text::Ligature.
When using this filter in HTML templates, one of the following steps will also need to be performed in order to properly display these Unicode ligatures.
Set the charset to UTF-8 in the HTTP response Content-Type header
charset
UTF-8
Content-Type
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Set the charset to UTF-8 in the HTML Content-Type meta element
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Convert the ligatures to HTML entities using the html_entity filter
html_entity
[% $content | ligature | html_entity %]
Nick Patch <patch@cpan.org>
Copyright 2011 Nick Patch
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Template::Plugin::Ligature, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Template::Plugin::Ligature
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Template::Plugin::Ligature
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.