HTML::Entities not working

vasanthgk91 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I passing the data from html page(contactus.html) to cgi page.Every time I passing Other language string as input.Showing wrong length.

use HTML::Entities;
use CGI;
my $cgi=new CGI;
my $message=$cgi->param('message');

$message=decode_entities($message);

my $message_fld_length=length($message);

print "$message_fld_length";
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The same code working... I passing the data from cgi page(contactus.cgi) to cgi page.I passing other language data as input.Here length working good. Can u please give a suggestion.Why input coming from html page na not working decode_entites.

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