First of all, decode( 'utf8', $untrusted ) is a security issue.

Wouldn't that depend on what you do with the value that you get back from decode()? Also, what would be the remedy? I would expect it's okay to do something like eval { decode( 'UTF-8', $untrusted, Encode::FB_CROAK ) } and check $@, or maybe just pass the return value from decode() through a regex or other test for valid content.

Secondly, UTF8 is a perl-specific encoding. UTF-8 is the actual encoding.

I haven't pinpointed the problem, but changing UTF8 to UTF-8 throughout fixed the problem.

Okay... I had to try twice -- I didn't get all the "utf8" strings changed over to "UTF-8" on the first try, but after I fixed the one I had forgotten ("binmode STDOUT..."), it worked. How strange...

Thanks!!!

In reply to Re^2: CGI hidden params vs. character encoding by graff
in thread CGI hidden params vs. character encoding by graff

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