Sooner or later I'll have to do that I think.

My current approach is a wrapper (not yet tested), I haven't decided yet which approach I like better (or which I detest less ;-) 

package MyCGI;
use base CGI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode qw(encode);

sub param {
    my $self = shift;
    if (@_ == 1){
        my @val = $self->SUPER::param(@_);
        @val = map { encode("utf8", $_) } @val;
        return wantarray ? @val : $val[0];
    } else {
        return $self->SUPER::param(@_);
    }
}
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In reply to Re^4: CGI.pm: automatically decode param() by moritz
in thread CGI.pm: automatically decode param() by moritz

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