I thought I'm all settled with following code:

sub form {
    my $self = shift;
    my %params = @_;
    
    # I could use delete right?
    my $skip = array_to_hash($params{'skip_fields'}); # Array/ArrayRef
    
    my $q = $self->query();
    my %vars = $q->Vars();
    
    use HTML::Entities;
    foreach(keys %vars){
        next if $skip->{$_}; # Don't encode if it's in skip list 
        
        $vars{$_} = HTML::Entities::encode($vars{$_});
    }
    
    return \%vars;
}
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But here is a problem. I use UTF-8 so that site would support Serbian (latin not cyrilic) so I end up with funky entities instead of letters like Š, Đ, Č, Ć and Ž.

Which when I hit preview I realised this site is doing too :)

Is there any other way to filter the input that would not do this? I dont want Š instead of Š in my forms ...

I believe it's ok to have those chars not encoded since I set both header and meta charset to utf-8.

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