Re^2: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue

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Re^3: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 29, 2012 at 22:31 UTC
`use CGI qw( -utf8 );` Will do this automatically for you; the caveat being it will cause problems with file uploads. Otherwise it's quite handy.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by Anonymous Monk on Aug 30, 2012 at 03:25 UTC
There is a patch for that :) Bug #79102 for CGI.pm: PUTDATA/POSTDATA, uncorrupted by -utf8, and as tempfiles	[reply]
Re^4: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by Jishanator (Initiate) on Sep 04, 2012 at 14:52 UTC
This did not work... After thorough research, apparently the problem resides within the STDIN, the variables from the FORM element are always raw, therefore never encoded. To resolve; decode the elements to UTF8. I can't seem to find a "global" method of doing so, so calling a loop that flips through the array of FORM elements will seemingly have to be my fix.	[reply]
Re^5: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2012 at 20:36 UTC
This does exactly what you describe: decodes to utf-8. It's high time you show a minimal set of code to replicate the problem you're having. It's almost certainly not what you think it is.	[reply]
Re^3: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by remiah (Hermit) on Aug 30, 2012 at 10:29 UTC
You fixed it , or you didn't fix it. I would recommend to check the version of CGI.pm with command like this. `perl -MCGI -e 'print $CGI::VERSION'` [download] From Character Encodings in Perl, which moritz sometimes cites for unicode issue. Special care must be taken when reading POST or GET parameters with the function param in the module CGI. Older versions (prior to 3.29) always returned byte strings, newer version return text strings if charset("UTF-8") has been called before, and byte strings otherwise. So, it is possible that you use older version of CGI.pm. And one day someone upgrade CGI.pm, you will be in trouble. Sometimes, older module has different behavior for decoding. I stumbled with older LWP::Simple and these troubles really embarrass me.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by Anonymous Monk on Aug 30, 2012 at 20:09 UTC
You got me worried now, I'm not too familiar with these things. I found out I have version 3.55 of CGI.pm. I do have it functioning currently, although I'm not very trusting of it long-term, let alone exactly how it's functioning.	[reply]
Re^4: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by Jishanator (Initiate) on Aug 30, 2012 at 20:35 UTC
It's 3.55, I'm not too sure if that's a red flag or not?	[reply]
Re^5: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue by remiah (Hermit) on Aug 30, 2012 at 22:25 UTC
CGI.pm seems to have explicit flag like '-utf8', So, 3.55 may have no problem at all. I have no intention to worry you. That doc will help you when you have some trouble with unicode, so please read that. regards	[reply]