In CGI scripts STDIN is only used to read POST data, so that's not all that interesting.

But the problems with the templates remain - as long as you use HTML::Template, you'll have to be very careful not to mix binary and text strings. So if you don't want to waste your sanity on charset issues, you should really switch to a template system that is aware to character encodings.

And since your templates have HTML::Template syntax I recommend one of the drop-in replacements, that is HTML::Template::Compiled or Template::Alloy.

The line decode_utf8($tmpl->output); in the OP demonstrates that you decode the template's output. So if HTML::Template provides you with binary data, and DBI returns upgraded data (aka text strings), your problem actually occured much earlier.

In reply to Re^3: UTF-8 webpage output from MySQL by moritz
in thread UTF-8 webpage output from MySQL by boboson

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