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

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Fri Dec 4 20:21:49 GMT 2009


On 4 Dec 2009, at 17:33, Mark Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>  
> wrote:
[...]
>> Getting something other than Latin-1, Windows-1252 or UTF-8 posted  
>> to your web forms is vanishingly unlikely.
> The above assertion assumes that the user's default locale is the same
> as yours...

... which is why you use <form accept-charset=...> to avoid that  
particular nasal demon, and then you have much better confidence in  
what character encoding(s) you're going to see.




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