UTF-8 + HTML::Template + CGI::Fast

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 4 Dec 2009, at 10:54, Andrew McGregor wrote:

>> If a user enters UTF-8 chars then the string displayed is corrupt, or
>> looks like it has been double encoded.
> 
> Adding this:
> 
> 1293 $rtbx_senderDetails = decode("utf8", $rtbx_senderDetails);
> 
> Just before passing the param to HTML::Template seems to work.
> 
> So I'm switching the UTF flag on which means it is handled correctly
> by HTML::Template?
> 
> Also, is there a more global way to resolve this as there are a few fields?
> 

Every string needs to be laundered AFAIK.

Maybe 5.12 will make it all better?

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