Thanks for your comment Moritz! As a complete Perl newb I'd be a bit weary of building a new subroutine, so far I've only really tweaked what's there.

Now, I remember reading somewhere that decoding in Perl was actually the same as encoding in utf-8 as that's what perl uses for its internals, in order to decode everything I'm reading from the template and the db is it as simple as decoding each element individually before using it? Would I then need to re-encode it or should setting the charset in the content type for the email be sufficient?

Thanks again for your help...

In reply to Re^2: strange utf-8 (I think) behaviour... by seekay
in thread strange utf-8 (I think) behaviour... by seekay

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