I'm working on an applet that works kind of like googlesearch browser button. OK, I basically stole the javascript wholesale. I'm using it to get a user's browser text selection and send it to my cgi script. I'm using CGI.pm, and things work OK with normal characters, but not with funky characters, for example, the symbol for the british pound unit of currency. I notice that it seems to work with the googlebuttons. If I select a weird character and hit my googlesearch button, the character shows up in the google query box. My javascript is basically the same, so what needs to happen on the back end? TIA guys and gals Joel Gwynn
