Re: some questions on cgi.pm

You can set the character encoding with CGI's start_html method. For example, to use the Hebrew ISO-8859 codepage,

my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html( -encoding => 'iso-8859-8' );
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You could also use UTF-8 which is probably more widely supported these days. The direction of the text display is up to the browser to handle properly and can't be controlled from your script.

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Re^2: some questions on cgi.pm by dorward (Curate) on Jul 27, 2005 at 15:44 UTC
That just sets the encoding for the XML prolog - it doesn't influence the HTTP Content-type, and under HTTP rules the Content-type trumps anything else for determining the character encoding. (See ikegami's comment for setting the HTTP header)	[reply]