Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-19 Thread Markus Wichitill
Just for the record it was the browser passing the form params as Latin unless there was a character that couldn't be represented in Latin. Then it would do as it was told and pass it as utf-8 Can you show either the actual webpage with the form or a simplified test case of it? Because I'm still p

Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-19 Thread angie ahl
On 5/19/05, Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jay Savage wrote: > > > On 5/18/05, angie ahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can confirm that it's happening before the data's gone > > > to the database or anything. I'm getting the params from > > > CGI.pm and then dec

Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Randy Kobes
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jay Savage wrote: > On 5/18/05, angie ahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can confirm that it's happening before the data's gone > > to the database or anything. I'm getting the params from > > CGI.pm and then decoding via decode("utf8", $v) The page > > the params came from

Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Jay Savage
On 5/18/05, angie ahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can confirm that it's happening before the data's gone to the > database or anything. > > I'm getting the params from CGI.pm and then decoding via decode("utf8", $v) > > The page the params came from is set as utf-8 in the http header and > con

Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Markus Wichitill
angie ahl wrote: It looks as though the browser isn't sending the data as UTF-8 unless it contains text that has to be. As soon as I add a € or some other character that's utf-8 it comes through fine. I've never seen any browser send anything but UTF-8 if the page was marked as UTF-8. my $

Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Graeme St.Clair
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:39 PM Subject: Baffling unicode wierdness Hi List I've been pottering away trying to get utf-8 behaving on my set up and have nearly got there but then the client phoned up saying that the £ symbol was being displayed as a ? The first page contains several langu

Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread angie ahl
I can confirm that it's happening before the data's gone to the database or anything. I'm getting the params from CGI.pm and then decoding via decode("utf8", $v) The page the params came from is set as utf-8 in the http header and content type and firefox is believing the page is utf-8. It looks

Baffling unicode wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread angie ahl
Hi List I've been pottering away trying to get utf-8 behaving on my set up and have nearly got there but then the client phoned up saying that the £ symbol was being displayed as a ? The first page contains several languages and a £ sign and all is displayed fine. http://perl.wtsbroadcast.com/ab