Fellow Brethren,

Most of my CGI scripts follow a common workflow:

  1. Fetch CGI GET and POST params
  2. Decode them into perls internal format
  3. Do some computations, and fill out a template
  4. Encode the template as utf8, and send it to the browser

My question is: how can I automate step 2, decode the return value of param().

The charset methods seems to affect only the generated header: 

!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use utf8;
my $q = new CGI;
$q->charset('utf8');

my $str = $q->param('foo');

print utf8::is_utf8($str) ? 1 : 0, "\n";
print $CGI::VERSION, "\n";
__END__
$ perl foo.pl foo=bää
0
3.15

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Currently my only idea is to subclass CGI, but somehow I think there should be a better solution. But what is it?

I've read Understanding CGI.pm and UTF-8 handling but it didn't enlighten me.

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In reply to CGI.pm: automatically decode param() by moritz

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