Hey yall, I am having an issue with some ASCII characters and soap (SOAP::Lite) but I think this is a problem that is not really localised to that module. It seems that some chars like ` are encoded differently that others when they are supposed to be the same character. When the character ` for example is entered into a text field by the keyboard the translation of that character seems to be done correctly and hence things run smoothly but when cut and paste into text box from a resource on a webpage the translation does not occur correctly even though it looks like the same character. I imagine there is some translation code or module that I can employ to scan for these and translate them to the ASCII char that SOAP can encode correctly but I am not too familiar with these sorts of things.. anyone had this sort of stuff go down before and have some sort of solution for it?

In reply to character differences and SOAP encoding by foftoogs

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