#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;

use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBrowser";
use HTML::Template;
use Encode;

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $sym = $cgi->param('cs') || '';
my $euro = "\x{20AC}";

my $charset = "utf-8";

Encode::_utf8_on($sym);
print $cgi->header(-charset => $charset),
$cgi->start_html
(
    -encoding => $charset,
    -head => $cgi->meta({-http_equiv => "Content-Type",
    -content    => "text/html; charset=".$charset}),
    -title => "Euro",
),
$sym,
$cgi->br,
UnicodeString(($sym)),
$cgi->br,
UnicodeString($euro),$cgi->br;

if($euro eq $sym)
{
  print "match";
}

print $cgi->end_html;

sub UnicodeString{
my $str;
  join("",
         map {
               $str .= sprintf("0x%04X ", $_)   # \x{...}
         } unpack("U*", $_[0]));           # unpack Unicode characters

  return $str;
}

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In reply to Re^2: Passing unicode via html forms by Baz
in thread Passing unicode via html forms by Anonymous Monk

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