Hi again,
I'm having trouble when passing unicode strings via a html form text box. When I use the get method I can see that the unicode is being represented in utf-8 form, such that when I enter the word 'Bris' with a long r and a long s, the following is passed -

B%C9%BCi%C5%BF

the unicode for 'Bris' is - 'B' U+027c 'i' U+017f

'Bris' is entered into the text box called "Name". I now wish to see that the string 'Bris' was entered into the text box using the following code -
my $lr = chr(636);
my $ls = chr(383);

$str = 'B'.$lr.'i'.$ls,
       
if ($str eq param('Name')
{
  ...

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but this comparison is always giving 0.
I also tried the following -

PrintUnicodeString($str),br;
PrintUnicodeString(param('Name'));

PrintUnicodeString
{
  join("",
         map {
               printf("\\x{%04X}", $_)   # \x{...}
         } unpack("U*", $_[0]));           # unpack Unicode characters
   }

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And this gives me the output -
0042 027C 0069 017F
0042 00C9 00BC 0069 00C5 00BF

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

In reply to Passing unicode via html forms by Anonymous Monk

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