Re: UTF-8 from a CGI script

A few observations regarding your utf-8 issues:

The reason the is_utf8() check failed is because of Perl's backward compatability issues. For hex values of "\x{00FF}" or less, the is_utf8() check is supposed to fail. Here are are a few examples using your variables:

binmode \*STDOUT, ':utf8';

my $u_temp      = "Temperature:350\x{00B0}F html:&deg;";
my $smiley      = "Smiley:\x{263a}";
my $price_label = "Price:\x{20AC}9.99";
print 'is degree'      if  utf8::is_utf8( $u_temp );
print 'is smiley'      if  utf8::is_utf8( $smiley );
print 'is price label' if  utf8::is_utf8( $price_label );
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Others have already posted about binmode(), or 'use open' layers.
In addition to Perl related issues, also ensure that your fonts for X (or Linux console), as well as your browser (or xterm, or cat(1) ) are also able to display in utf8 charrs using utf-8 fonts. (I use LatCyrGr-16.psf fonts for Linux console.)

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