Sounds like a nice trick. Especially since the official ways of handling request character encoding are not well supported and not very well thought out either (i.e. as far as I know a user-agent is only required to send charset information for multi-part forms)

I'm just wondering about what string to use, though. There are dozens of encodings in use around the world, and you should be able (ideally) to recognize each one. Is there any "standard" way of doing this? (a CPAN module would be wonderful, ofcourse)

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In reply to Re^2: Encoding confusion with CGI forms by Joost
in thread Encoding confusion with CGI forms by davistv

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