The thing you are referring to as "two sequences" is actually the two-byte sequence for the utf-8 encoded character U00E5. (updated the grammar slightly to make more sense)

Naturally, we'd love to have an elegant and concise way to interpret this correctly as utf8 text, but I don't know enough about the URI modules to provide much guidance in that direction.

So instead, I'll offer an ad-hoc (but still somewhat concise) work-around -- it's a kluge, but it should work until you or some other monk can find the needed gems in the appropriate module(s): 

use Encode;

# ... get the uri string into $_ by whatever means ...

$_ = "a%20%C3%A5%20%2F";

# first, let's turn the uri encoded string (with "%HH" for some bytes)
+ into binary:

s/\%([0-9a-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/egi;

# then, since this produces a utf-8 byte sequence, let's "decode" that
+ into utf-8

$_ = decode( 'utf8', $_ );

# $_ now has utf8 flag set, and contains the string with expected unic
+ode characters

binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";

print;

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The "binmode STDOUT" thing could be taken out if you add a "-CO" flag on the shebang line, I believe -- that "perlrun" option does the same thing as 'binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";'.

In reply to Re^3: javascript encodeURI() -> perl uri_unescape_utf8() ? by graff
in thread javascript encodeURI() -> perl uri_unescape_utf8() ? by nkropols

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