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CGI.pm and URL parametersby ambs (Pilgrim) |
on May 17, 2009 at 12:45 UTC ( [id://764505]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
ambs has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Hello I am almost sure I had this script working already. But yesterday I noted that when I call it with a URL with unicode characters (say, dic.pl?word=coração), I can't get this string correctly. I am using 'use locale;' for Portuguese, I am using 'use utf8;' because the script has unicode characters, I am using 'binmode(STDIN,":utf8");' and 'binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");', and finally, I am calling the hader function for CGI with '-charset=>"utf-8"'. Added as well the META tag in the HTML, and checked that apache doesn't have a default charset. But the string appears in latin1 (with two different bytes for each unicode character. Thanks for any hint. Hack: noted that if I use Encode::_set_utf8 to the parameter, all seems to work. But it is a hack. Alberto Simões
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