Dear Monks,

I have a tricky encoding problem on a Catalyst application. The application as a whole is running fine on UTF-8, using the Unicode::Encoding plugin. The only problem is that it also has to deal with a rather archaic 3rd party system for the checkout process, which performs a callback with various parameters in ISO-8859-1, and which is not configurable. If I could get hold of these parameters in my controller I could do some kind of charset conversion, but before I can do anything the application chokes on the callback with a

Caught exception in engine "utf8 "\xA3" does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Catalyst/Plugin/Unicode/Encoding.pm line 145."

Does anyone have any bright ideas on how to skip the Unicode::Encoding plugin's charset validation on parameters for an individual action without actually editing Unicode::Encoding itself, or is that my only option?

Wisdom appreciated in advance.

In reply to Using alternative encodings for specific Catalyst actions by JohannShunt

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