Re^2: character encoding & french accents


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Re^2: character encoding & french accents

by dstamos (Initiate)

on Feb 03, 2006 at 15:08 UTC ( [id://527674]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Thank you to rhesa, graff & fraktalisman for your constructive input. "First of all, where does your source document come from? Which factors determine its encoding?" The content comes from an input box (form) and the cgi program writes this to a text file. What happens after that i dont know. I was able to modify the script to insert a MIME header as you suggested but it did not change anything. I dont know what determines its encoding. I think im going to have to get the programmer involved here and come back with some code and more info. thank you again to everyone.

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Re^3: character encoding & french accents
by rhesa (Vicar) on Feb 03, 2006 at 16:33 UTC

I've found on several occasions that it's necessary to manually upgrade form input to utf8. For some reason, CGI returns raw byte strings, and those might end up being upgraded to utf once more, resulting in lots of squiggly characters. I did this like so:

    use Encode;
    my $email_body = $cgi->param( 'email_body' );
    $email_body    = decode_utf8( $email_body );
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