Fellow devoted!

I wrote a simple web script to add some (UTF-8 encoded) texts into database. Somehow is there a bug which i can't find. I simplified it to bones and it still does not work.

When i enter plain ascii, it is OK. When i enter Latin1 diacritics like "öä", they turn out like "��". When i try use somethin outside of Latin1, it turns to "Internal server error" and from log i see: "Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Encode.pm line 162."

As far as i see, i have data properly encoded and headers define charset right way. I put test ( is_utf8() ) in script and it yells "1" to log. So where is the glitch here? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use locale;
use utf8;
use open ':std' => ':encoding(UTF-8)';
use CGI qw(:all -utf8);
my $q = new CGI;
my %p = $q->Vars;

warn utf8::is_utf8($p{text}); # says: 1
warn $p{text}; # shows uglified chars in log too

print $q->header(-type=>"text/html", -charset=>"UTF-8");
print $q->start_html(-encoding=>"UTF-8");
print $q->pre( $p{text} );

print   $q->p("some pretty UTF-8 formed characters: öäüõžš¢ð€¶"),
        $q->start_form,
                $q->textarea('text', '' , 10, 40),
                $q->br,
                $q->submit('view', 'view'),
        $q->end_form,
        $q->end_html;

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TIA,

Nõnda, WK

In reply to Confusing UTF-8 bug in CGI-script by wanradt

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