Re: [tlug] utf form problems

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

David Shanahan wrote:
> Sounds like perl might be treating your string as bytes rather than a
> unicode string,
> then muching them on output.
>
> You should read the docs on the Encode module;
> perldoc Encode
>
> You may need to do
> $string = decode("utf8", param("stuff"));
> to tell perl the %E5%8A%A9 bytes from the form is actually utf8 string
>
> also look at the docs on the -C option to the perl command (or the
> PERL_UNICODE environment variable)
> perldoc perlrun
>
> and finally this has more background on utf8/unicode support in perl
> perldoc perlunicode
Thanks David.  This all looks really promising.  I mentioned 
unicode/utf problems at the Perl Mongers last night (I'm in 
Northern California) and two people groaned but no one else 
knew what I was talking about.  Part of the problem is 
knowing even where to start, and this looks really good.

I appreciate all the help from you tlug'ers.  This is 
starting (barely) to make sense.

Thanks
Steve S.