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Monks,
I am in deep trouble here and are pulling my hair out.

I am trying to implement a web application that cleanly operates in utf8 with CGI::Application. Is it possible?

That's where I am:

my code is in utf8: use utf8; at the beginning of application.cgi and all modules.
* a sidenote- I use
```
use CGI::Fast();
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```
to enable fastcgi in my application.cgi
*in an act of helplessness is i added
```
use open ':utf8';
use open ':std';
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```
to application.cgi, without really knowing what it does (and actually it seems to do nothing.
*in Application.pm I add $self->header_add(-charset => 'utf-8'); in setup { }
*after serious trouble with my MySQL data (where I set everything to utf8: db, connnection etc. see this thread) I found out that my perl script only outputs this data to display correctly in the browser with
```
    my $flagOn = $html->output;
    Encode::_utf8_on($flagOn);
    return $flagOn;
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```
, actually I think that this only works on my linux browser environment, I saw a hint of malfunction on Windows... esoteric.
*finally file uploads came into play. That's when I dropped my conversion layer module for all param-stuff and began to manually add my $param_f = decode("utf8", $q->param("f") );to all my subroutines. Now - occasionally! (which it also does under simple cgi not fast cgi operation and seems to be connected to overall load) - my upload crashes with CGI.pm (version 3.33) throwing things like "Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xd9, 1 byte after start byte 0xee, expected 3 bytes) in index at (eval 139) line 15." in apache's error.log and to the browser via Carp "CGI.pm: Server closed socket during multipart read (client aborted?)."... last idea: apache or my script?

update: I spawned another thread, as the fileupload problem seems to be losely connected to this problem.

In reply to Getting mad with CGI::Application and utf8 by isync

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