Quick fix -

converting your input to iso-8859-1 (a.k.a latin-1) via Encode will help. Here's a minimal CGI: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
use Encode qw(from_to);;

use strict;

my $q = CGI->new;

my ( $name, $result);

if ( $name = $q -> param ('name')) {
    my $tmp = $name;
    from_to ( $tmp,"utf-8","iso-8859-1");
    $result = $tmp =~ /^\w[\w\s\-äÄöÖüÜ]+$/ ? 'ok' : 'failed';
}   

print $q -> header (-charset => 'utf-8');

print <<EOH;
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Foo</title>
    <body>
      <form name="foo" method="post">
        Name: <input name="name" />
        <input type="submit" value="send" />
      </form>Name: $name, parsing: $result
    </body>
    
  </head>
</html>
EOH

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--shmem 

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                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: WebApps and Encoding by shmem
in thread WebApps and Encoding by holli

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