I've run into a problem with UTF-8 and HTTP::Request::Common::POST, as illustrated by the script below.

In brief, the POST request seems to end up with all UTF-8 chars deleted.

AFAICS, the following regex on line 16 of package URI::_query seems to be causing the problem. 

$q =~ s/([^$URI::uric])/$URI::Escape::escapes{$1}/go;

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but it's not clear to me why.

Any suggestions, or fixes ?

Steve Collyer

############# script follows #################### 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use Encode;
use charnames qw(greek);

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

my $utf8_data = "<\N{alpha}\N{beta}\N{gamma}\N{delta}>";

print $utf8_data, "\n\n";

print Encode::is_utf8($utf8_data)
        ? "\$utf8_data marked as UTF-8\n\n"
        : "\$utf8_data not marked as UTF-8\n\n";

my $request = POST("http://192.168.0.1/test",
                   Content => [
                                data      => $utf8_data,
                                more_data => "some more data",
                              ]
                  );

my $req_string = $request->as_string();

print Encode::is_utf8($req_string)
        ? "\$req_string marked as UTF-8\n\n"
        : "\$req_string not marked as UTF-8\n\n";

print $req_string, "\n";

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In reply to HTTP::Request::Common::POST and UTF-8 by scollyer

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