I'm having a small problem that I hope somebody has a simple solution
to. I'm using Catalyst with TT for the view, PostgreSQL and everything
set up using utf8 (in perl source "use utf8", in postgres using
"enable_utf8" and in the actual templates containing utf8 encoded
interational characers). I've verified that the data stored in postgres
is actually stored correctly (international characters in the postgres
table display correctly in psql, and data pulled from both the database
and templates show international characters fine).
Everything seems to work fine, with one small exception. Whenever I have
a HTML form input type=text with an international character and the form
validation fails, so the default value of the input field contains the
international character, the rest of the html document does no longer
display international characters correctly. If I remove the
international character from the input field and resubmit, everything is
displayed correctly again.
I'm guessing the browser detects that the document contains some element
that is not proper utf8, and disables utf8 altogether before displaying
whenever the input field contains an international characters.
The input field value is set in the template from the
$c->req->parameters passed in the stash.
So my question is what's the best way to handle this? Can an input value
in a form handle a utf8 encoded string at all, and if so how can I
convince it my string is utf8, and if I do does the browser detect it
automagically?
Any pointers?
Thanks,
Marius K.
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