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in reply to Re^2: UTF8 URI Escaping
in thread UTF8 URI Escaping

Yes, yes. Quite right. Too glossy there, though if the output layer was right, it would have been fine, and I would also have -utf8 flag in the CGI, with proper encodings on the layers and the HTTP headers, or decoding manually the input, or Encoding::Unicode in the Catalyst plugin list, or… The real point being rolling your own can bite seasoned devs, it *will* bite neophytes and create maintenance nightmares for, well, me because I seem to inherit an endless stream of code written in this style.