On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Howard Fuchs wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Here is my problem. I have a script which processes input from a
> textarea which may have 'special characters' in it like � or � etc.
> Unfortunately what I am getting back are these ‘ or ’ respectively.
>
> Script snippet start------------------
>
> use CGI qw/:standard/;
>
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> $c = new CGI;
> $ta = $c->param('ta');
>
>
> open (TIDYFILE,">c:/tmp/tidied.html");
> print TIDYFILE $ta;
> close (TIDYFILE);
>
>
> Script snippet end------------------
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Howard
>
Many "special characters" are encoded when passed to/from CGI scripts.
That is likely what is happening to you. Try looking at HTML:Entities
perldoc HTML::Entities
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