On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Todd > Thanx for the sample code. > More below. > > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:08 -0700, Todd Ross wrote: > > CGI::Session: 4.20 > > Firstly, you can get V 4.42 from CPAN and V 4.45 from the repository. > But, most importantly, I put a discussion of UTF8 in the docs: > > > http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/CGI-Session-4.42/lib/CGI/Session.pm#A_Warning_about_UTF8<http://search.cpan.org/%7Emarkstos/CGI-Session-4.42/lib/CGI/Session.pm#A_Warning_about_UTF8> > Following the link I read this statement "Until this problem is understood and corrected, users are advised to avoid UTF8 in conjunction with CGI::Session". Yikes! Is it really that bad? I'm using UTF-8 (everywhere in my app) with CAP::Session without any problems (although with a MySQL backend for session storage, I did have to change the a_session field to a "blob"). Todd, what was your intent with the use encoding 'utf8'; line? Do you only want to save and restore UTF-8 encoded session data? or do you want to do that PLUS have Perl consider your script (i.e., file test.pl) to be encoded in UTF-8? I ask because I find this to be a common misunderstanding about UTF-8. The 'use encoding...' line is usually not what people should use. If you only want the script to read/write UTF-8, and your script is in normal ASCII/ISO-8859-1 encoding, then try this instead of the 'use encoding..' line to get the script to read and write UTF-8 on stdin and stdout: binmode STDIN, ":encoding(utf8)"; binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)"; With the above two lines, your script worked for me. This might help: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Unicode_UTF-8 (something I wrote a while ago when trying to understand how UTF-8 works). -- Mark > See also the discussions on RT: > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21981 > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28516 > Naturally, if can help us resolve this problem, we'd all be delighted. > > -- > Ron Savage > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
