Re^2: www:mechanize mangles unicode

Found the bug.

For starters, everything works fine if the server sends

<form method="POST" accept-charset="iso-8859-15">
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HTML::Form (used by WWW::Mechanize) processes that attribute and generates the correct form data. The bug is that WWW::Mechanize doesn't inform HTML::Form of the page's charset, leaving HTML::Form with no idea what to do when accept-charset is missing. (It defaults to using UTF-8.)

Some may not consider this a bug since the spec simple recommends the behaviour, but it's what other browsers do.

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Re^3: www:mechanize mangles unicode by red0hat (Initiate) on Apr 28, 2010 at 23:12 UTC
Wow. Thanks. Now, I'm searching for how to tell HTML::Form which character set to use from the client side	[reply]
Re^4: www:mechanize mangles unicode by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 28, 2010 at 23:17 UTC
`HTML::Form->parser(..., charset => $encoding)` [download] but you can do it after the fact with `$form->accept_charset($encoding)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]