Re^2: Can't decode ill-formed UTF-8 octet sequence <FF> at /usr/share/perl5/CGI.pm line 1116.

Thank you for your research and idea of removing the use utf8; ! -- I would never guess that!

By the way, why do you suppose that it is useless here? -- As i understand, that directive tells PERL about script encoding, does it?

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Re^3: Can't decode ill-formed UTF-8 octet sequence <FF> at /usr/share/perl5/CGI.pm line 1116. by hippo (Archbishop) on Dec 31, 2016 at 11:14 UTC
Yes, it does that and some more (see the documentation). Since there are no utf8 characters in your script and since you are handling the CGI parameter decoding yourself explicity then there is no need to use this module. Without it everything seems to run smoothly for me and, according to your follow-up post above, also for you.	[reply]