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Re^3: utf8 characters in tr/// or s///by MattLG (Sexton) |
on Oct 04, 2008 at 17:28 UTC ( [id://715376]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
And one other thing that I'm finding conflicting advice for on the internet is packing the incoming data from CGI into utf8. I currently use:
against the strings that come in via the web. Now I see that there's a "U" template for unicode. But I'm after UTF8, so that doesn't quite fit, and I don't understand what the pack docs are saying about UTF-8. However, in a couple of places I've searched I've found this:
which I don't really understand. I'd assumed the "C" would put everything into ASCII/ISO-8859-1 and utf8::decoding that would just produce garbage out of the special characters. What would the monks advise? Cheers MattLG
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