Re: [cgiapp] How do you handle MS "smart quotes"?

[Mike Barry <suppressed>]

Michael Peters wrote:
> Graham TerMarsch wrote:
>   
> > I've run into an issue on one of the projects that I'm working on and thought 
> > that I'd ping the list to see how others are handling this...
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> You need to do all of the following:
>
> + Tell the browser that the forms/pages are UTF-8 (using HTTP headers and <meta>
> tags)
> + When the form data comes in, decode_utf8() it. If you're using CGI.pm you'll
> need to use 3.30 which hasn't been released (you can find it on RT) cause it has
> some UTF-8 fixes.
> + When doing DB pull/push you'll need to tell the database that the data is in
> UTF-8. In MySQL it's done with the 'mysql_enable_utf8' flag on the database handle.
> + If you're doing any file IO which may produce or read UTF-8 then you'll need
> to make sure that your calls are using the IO layer magic syntax.
>
> The biggest help for me was reading the perluniintro and perlunicode perldoc pages.
>   
Thanks! This is the type of check-list I've been looking for. Do you 
find that you need to set the
form accept-charset attribute also?

-MikeB.



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