Re: CGI and character encoding

2011-02-25 Thread André Warnier
Thanks to Michael, Michael, Lloyd, Cees, your answers and insights have made things clearer for me. I think I'll use a combination of all of that for this new application we're writing. In other words, to program "defensively", I propose to do this : when sending the html page with the : - cr

Re: CGI and character encoding

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Schout
On 02/24/2011 03:31 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Hi. > > I wonder if someone here can give me a clue as to where to look... If you have a fairly recent CGI.pm, it will decode utf-8 properly for you (even avoiding double-decoding), but there are some caveats. In addition to what others have already

Re: CGI and character encoding

2011-02-24 Thread André Warnier
Michael Peters wrote: On 02/24/2011 04:31 PM, André Warnier wrote: I wonder if someone here can give me a clue as to where to look... The CGI.pm documentation talks about the -utf8 import flag which is probably what you're looking for. But it does caution not to use it for anything that nee

RE: CGI and character encoding

2011-02-24 Thread Lloyd Richardson
Subject: CGI and character encoding Hi. I wonder if someone here can give me a clue as to where to look... I am using Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_jk/1.2.26 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0

Re: CGI and character encoding

2011-02-24 Thread Cees Hek
Hi André, There is a perlmonks post from a few years ago that explains one way of automating this with CGI.pm. I've used this for several years now without problems. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=651574 Just remember that decoding params is just one part of dealing with utf-8. You need to

Re: CGI and character encoding

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Peters
On 02/24/2011 04:31 PM, André Warnier wrote: I wonder if someone here can give me a clue as to where to look... The CGI.pm documentation talks about the -utf8 import flag which is probably what you're looking for. But it does caution not to use it for anything that needs to do file uploads.

CGI and character encoding

2011-02-24 Thread André Warnier
Hi. I wonder if someone here can give me a clue as to where to look... I am using Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_jk/1.2.26 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 perl -MCGI -e 'print $CGI::VERSION' 3.