Hello everybody.
On using the javascript encodeURI() method to encode a string that is posted to a perl script I can not find a good way to decode it in perl. Regular english characters translate fine using URI::uri_unescape. However, all other character are created with Unicode escapes, using more than one escape sequence per character. Which creates problems for things like Å or Å as I would say. ("våre norske tegn bør æres") While there is a method in the latest URI::Escape module called uri_escape_utf8,(that corresponds to javascript encodeURI()) there is no uri_unescape_utf8.
That would be the function I am looking for. Any one seen it? Or something similar?

In reply to javascript encodeURI() -> perl uri_unescape_utf8() ? by nkropols

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