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

[Nicholas Clark]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:49:09AM +0000, Philip Potter wrote:

> I don't know if this problem is in general solvable, because user
> agents are not required to declare what encoding they are using to
> submit form contents. Even when the form uses the
> accept-charset="utf-8" attribute to restrict the user agent to only
> one charset, firefox doesn't append charset=utf-8 to the Content-type:
> HTTP header.
> 
> I don't see how you're supposed to guess what encoding the user agent
> used if it won't tell you. Does anyone else have any ideas?

I've not used it, but see http://www.joshisanerd.com/set/
and Encode::HEBCI.

It's a very crafty idea of using HTML entities and hidden form fields to start
to deduce which particular crack the browser is smoking.

Nicholas Clark