Monks,

I have been banging my head against a wall on this issue for the last few hours and cannot make sense of it ...

A html form gets submitted with a non-standard character (e.g. €) in it's escaped format €

When the form is POSTed, it arrives on STDIN as %E2%82%AC

This translates to € when it goes thro' my (bog- standard, Perl-101) POSTParser

    my (%searchField, $buffer, $pair, @pairs);
    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{ 'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
    foreach $pair (@pairs){
      my ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
      $value =~ tr/+/ /;
      $value =~ s/%([a-fA-f0-9][a-fA-f0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
      $name =~ tr/+/ /;
      $name =~ s/%([a-fA-f0-9][a-fA-f0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
      $searchField{ $name } = $value;
    }
  return %searchField;

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What can I do to deal effectively with this and other similar characters (á,é,í,ó,ú, etc)?

In reply to Encode/Decode Problem by macPerl

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