Right, but that's static HTML. Try this and look at what your browser thinks the encoding is:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
print header();
print <<HTML;
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<script>
document.write(location.search + "<br>");
</script>
<form>
<input type="hidden" name="test" value="ä">
<input type="submit">
</form>
HTML
print end_html();
Unless you tell it not to, CGI.pm will set the encoding to iso-8859-1 in the HTTP header. In this case the meta tag has no effect, at least in recent versions of IE and Mozilla.
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<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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