What I usually use for output encoding is just:

binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';

If you run in under FastCGI, put this line in cgiapp_prerun. In the mode where you output the binary data insert

binmode STDOUT,':raw';

If you expect unicode data from forms, you could put this code in your cgiapp_prerun stage: 

    my $vars = $self->query->Vars;
    while ( my($k,$v) = each %$vars ){
        next unless defined $v;
        next if $self->query->upload($k);  # uploads are binary
        next if $k eq 'auth_password';     # else MD5 crashes;
        $self->query->param(
                    -name=>$k,
                    -value=>Encode::decode_utf8($v)
                );
    }

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Using applications written with CGI::Application under FastCGI is a little bit troublesome. The recommended in the documentation method of programatically switching runmodes with "prerun_mode" leaves the object further unusable. So the the plugins that use this method (Forward, Redirect, Session, Authentication, Authorization) I find them unusable in fast-cgi environment.

In reply to Re: perl -COE and, for example, CGI::Application by karavelov
in thread perl -COE and, for example, CGI::Application by isync

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