I've been struggling to properly convert text into HTML with sensical escape codes from text that is pasted into a web form. The problem is that I can't count on the pasted text to be any particular encoding. Sometimes it comes from a web page in UTF-8, sometimes it's ISO-8859-1, and sometimes it's Windows 1252. I've done lots of Google searches, tried Text::Iconv (I get no output from it for some odd reason), and I've also tried Unicode::String (lossy conversion) and Unicode::Map8, all to no avail.

I thought that the browser did an encoding conversion based on the content-type header, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is there any practical way to translate text submitted via a web form into HTML?

The server is Fedora 2, LANG is en_US.UTF-8. Clients are mostly Windows plus a few Mac OS X systems.

Thank You,
Troy

In reply to Encoding confusion with CGI forms by davistv

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