I've got a problem that is melting my brain a little.

I want to read something from a database, then post it in a HTML form. It worked fine until a user decided to throw in some accented characters. The accented characters are being posed to the website as 2 characters.

example: Château becomes Château.

The website uses iso-8859-15. So, I'm inclined to believe this is an encoding issue. The rest of the code is working as expected.

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->agent_alias('Windows Mozilla');

$title ="Château";

$result = $mech->get($WineURL.$ID);
die "GET failed\n" unless $result->is_success;

$mech->field('frmFieldName[title]', $title);
$result = $mech->submit;
print $mech->value('frmFieldName[title]');

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Output = Château

Thanks in advance,

ChrisP.

In reply to www:mechanize mangles unicode by red0hat

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