in reply to Re^3: javascript encodeURI() -> perl uri_unescape_utf8() ?
in thread javascript encodeURI() -> perl uri_unescape_utf8() ?

I think that CGI's 'unescape' method does the same thing. 
use CGI qw(unescape);
$_ = "a%20%C3%A5%20%2F";
$value = CGI::unescape($_);

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(it's in CGI/Util.pm)

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