Hello all,

I am using a module which parses a text file with german umlaut characters (äöü etc.). In this module the 'use locale'-pragma is used and everything works fine executing my script inside an xterm. Problems arise when I want to do the same thing in a CGI-Script (apache-1.3-server).

The script fails because the geman umlaut-characters (äöü etc.) are not part of \w in the CGI-environment, causing some regexes to fail, although I set

$ENV{LANG}='de_DE@euro'
$ENV{LC_CTYPE}='de_DE@euro'
$ENV{LC_COLLATE}='POSIX'

just like it is set in bash-environment. According to documentation of 'use locale' in the camel-book it uses the values in LC_CTYPE for regex-comparisons and in LC_COLLATE for string comparisons.

What can I do to tell apache respective CGI that I am in a german environment and want special german characters to be interpreted as alphanumeric characters?

Thanks,
Daniel.

P.S.: using perl 5.8.0 on a Linux box (SuSe 8.2, kernel 2.4.20)

In reply to locale problems with cgi and apache by orrence

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