$href = "http://mywebsite.com?myperl.cgi?param1="+URIComponent(string);

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
$| = 1;

use CGI qw/:standard :no_xhtml/;
use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBrowser";
use HTML::Template;
use List::Util qw[ shuffle ];
use URI::Escape;
use DBI;
use Encode;

my $h = new CGI;
my $charset = "utf-8";

#print header(-charset=>$charset),
print header(),
start_html(-title=>"Unicode");

my $compare = "\x{1E02}oo";

my $param1 = param("param1");
//Encode::_utf8_on($param1);

if ($compare eq $param1)
{
   print "match";
}
print end_html();