Re^3: HTML Form > PERL Script in UTF-8 issue

[Your Mother]

use CGI qw( -utf8 );

Will do this automatically for you; the caveat being it will cause problems with file uploads. Otherwise it's quite handy.

[Anonymous Monk]

There is a patch for that :) Bug #79102 for CGI.pm: PUTDATA/POSTDATA, uncorrupted by -utf8, and as tempfiles

[Jishanator]

This did not work... After thorough research, apparently the problem resides within the STDIN, the variables from the FORM element are always raw, therefore never encoded. To resolve; decode the elements to UTF8. I can't seem to find a "global" method of doing so, so calling a loop that flips through the array of FORM elements will seemingly have to be my fix.

[Your Mother]

This does exactly what you describe: decodes to utf-8. It's high time you show a minimal set of code to replicate the problem you're having. It's almost certainly not what you think it is.