I am using HTML::Entities to prevent cross-site scripting. Basically those $variables that come from the user's input are passed to HTML::Entities::encode_entities() before sending them back to the browser. The user's input can be UTF-8 data. When I encode UTF-8 characters they don't show up properly in the browser, if I don't encode them they are presented just fine.

The solution I have is to HTML encode only non-UTF-8 characters. So for each character I have to check first if it is UTF-8 or not using String::Multibyte.

Is there a better way to do this? I was hoping HTML::Entities to handle this, is there a better module?

Thanks,
-Andrés

In reply to HTML::Entities and UTF-8 by amonroy

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