I write web applications based on CGI.pm. Up to now we always used iso-8859-1. Now we want to change to utf-8 encoded dialogs.

Everything works as desired, but I feel a bit uncertain about one point:

How can my application check which code was used by the browser to send form input?

I have the impression that browsers will send form input utf-8 encoded when the HTML file containing the form was encoded in utf-8, and iso-8859-1 when the HTML file was encoded as such.

But it would be nice to have more than just 'an impression'.

Is there a way in CGI.pm to find out which code was used in the request?

Regards

Thedi gerber@id.ethz.ch

In reply to UTF-8 or iso-8859-1 input to CGI.pm by thedi

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