Hello,

I am have a small problem with Tempaltes and displaying UTF8 characters correctly. The data is stored in a SQLite database and a query with the code below displays the correct UTF8 characters. However, when I send the results to Template I get strange malformed characters. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;

my $wah = wah();
print @$wah;

sub wah {
my $dbh = new_dbh();
my @results;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select s.show_name,sr.overview,sr.banner from
+ shows s,series sr where s.seriesid=sr.seriesid;");
$sth->execute();
 while (my @rows = $sth->fetchrow_array() )
           {
             push @results,@rows,
           }

return \@results;
}

sub new_dbh {
    my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=shows.db","","", {RaiseE
+rror => 1, sqlite_unicode => 1})  or die "$DBI::errstr";
    return $dbh;

}

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This returns the data, at the console, correctly and shows displays the characters correctly. However, if I send $wah to tempaltes to be dereferenced the display looks like:
Madison Avenue’s “Golden Ageâ€
Instead of this:
Madison Avenue’s “Golden Age”

Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong? The data is being stored correctly in SQLite as a query from SQLite console shows the data correctly. Data::Dumper shows the characters correctly too, it's only when I send it to templates if fails over. I have tried my $template = Template->new({ ENCODING => 'utf8' }); but I am not sure if this works for Template at all.

UPDATE: OK, adding <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> to my header seems to have sorted this problem!
Nothing to see here, move along!!

In reply to Perl Template UTF8 by packetstormer

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