in reply to Re^2: UTF8 URI Escaping
in thread UTF8 URI Escaping

I forgot to close the question, I've sorted it. It was a mix of some settings in Perl, ensuring MySQL is in UTF mode and ensuring 'use utf8' is in ALL perl files. Writeup is here.

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Re^4: UTF8 URI Escaping
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2013 at 08:19 UTC

    obligatory :) use CGI or die;

    This comment is crap Some guides have a version of the above using encoding in the statement. Do not use this - it is broken!