I you're sure you're always getting UTF-8 from the browsers, then everything should be hunky-dory after using Encode::_utf8_on.

However, I've found that some browsers can get confused about the character encoding the HTML is in, and consequently with which encoding data should be sent to the server.

I've found that if the Content-Type: output header has the string "; charset=utf-8" postfixed, then things tend to work out. So, for text/html, the content-type would then read: 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

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Hope this helps.

Liz

In reply to Re: Unicode and Forms by liz
in thread Unicode and Forms by mdxi

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