in reply to Re^2: UTF8 URI Escaping
in thread UTF8 URI Escaping

I send that to the log with die and it says... \xc2 \xa2 If I send that to DBI::Mysql it saves it as: £

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Re^4: UTF8 URI Escaping
by ajinkyagadewar (Novice) on Apr 12, 2012 at 13:31 UTC

    To remove that accented character u can use Text::Unaccent
Re^4: UTF8 URI Escaping
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 02, 2012 at 14:59 UTC
    MySQL itself may be causing your problem - what kind of field are you storing it in? BLOB will screw up big style (binary data does not allow encode/decode), TEXT should be a safe bet (provided your MySQL table is set to UTF-8)