in reply to Re: UTF-8 and URL encoding
in thread UTF-8 and URL encoding

Yes, it does. The rule is: GET and POST parameters are encoded in the charset of the page. Try this html page with your browser, alternatively with utf-8 and iso-8859-1: 
<head>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type"
       content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 <!-- meta http-equiv="content-type"
           content="text/html; charset=utf-8" -->
</head>
<body>
<script>
document.write(location.search + "<br>");
</script>
<form>
 <input type="hidden" name="test" value="&auml;">
 <input type="submit">
</form>
</body>

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Re: Re: Re: UTF-8 and URL encoding
by iguanodon (Priest) on Mar 18, 2004 at 13:23 UTC
    Right, but that's static HTML. Try this and look at what your browser thinks the encoding is: 

    #!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw(:standard);

print header();

print <<HTML;
<html>
<head>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<script>
document.write(location.search + "<br>");
</script>
<form>
 <input type="hidden" name="test" value="&auml;">
 <input type="submit">
</form>
HTML

print end_html();

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    Unless you tell it not to, CGI.pm will set the encoding to iso-8859-1 in the HTTP header. In this case the meta tag has no effect, at least in recent versions of IE and Mozilla.

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