Sorry, forgot to link to problem with german chars in html post fetch but I just went back and fixed (above).

I actually did two code postings in the thread because my approach to the problem evolved, and I judged it would make the original question harder to understand if I just updated... so to get the most knowledge about the weirdness I was encountering, I'd read through the whole thread.

But if you just want the function snipped, it was 

# Takes a variable and spits it back out with the proper german charac
+ters
sub germanchars_to_strange_html_chars {
    my $var = shift;
    my %table = ( 'ß' => 'ß', 'ä' => 'ä', 'ö' => 'ö',
              'Ä' => 'ä', 'Ö' => 'ö', 'Ü' => 'ü',
              'ü' => 'ü');


    while (my ($k,$v) = each %table) {
        $var =~ s/$k/$v/g;
    }

    return $var;
}

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I don't think this is a particular solution to the problems you were having in hungarian, just that my approach might be helpful.

Also, you might want to know, how did I determine the substitutions for the function?

I did the post request manually with firefox, and then did file->save as. The funky characters were then culled from the result. Truly a kludge, and I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but until I figure it out, that's what I'm left with.

thomas.

In reply to Post request function is in the thread by tphyahoo
in thread Differences in UTF-8 html form by Realbot

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