I have a simple web page that uses CGI.pm This is what I do:

when I call any perl CGI.pm function and use czech character "ě" for value of a textfield, label of radio_group or anything else I get �› insetad of "ě"

this is extremly weird - since the whole page is utf8 (<meta name="charset" content="utf-8"/> ). Especially since this works

$textfield_value = "ěěěěě"; 
 print '<textfield value="'.$textfield_value.'" >';

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therefore I am positive - it has to be CGI.pm causing the problem... I tried to put 

  use utf8;
  utf8::decode($textfield_value);

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at the beginning of my scirpt and it fixed the CGI.pm problem but made all other characters in the script (those that are regulary printed) look funny..

Any ideas??? note: it happens to me here as well even as I edit this question -> what i previously wrote as ěěě is in edit window displayed as &#283;. The SAME thing with the Name of this thread is should be CGI.pm encoding - wrong encoding for ě and not CGI.pm encoding - wrong encoding for &#283;

In reply to CGI.pm encoding - wrong encoding for &#283; by koszta5

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