How to encode cyrillic characters for URL and then decode them?

Question

I have a form on one page:

One of the input fi

Answer 1

Try that in your script (index.cgi) :

use Encode;

Then...

$search_string = decode_utf8( $search_string );

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Another idea (if you want to create a UTF8-friendly hash of your CGI input) :

require Encode;
require CGI;
my $query = CGI ->new;
my $form_input = {};  
foreach my $name ( $query ->param ) {
  my @val = $query ->param( $name );
  foreach ( @val ) {
    $_ = Encode::decode_utf8( $_ );
  }
  $name = Encode::decode_utf8( $name );
  if ( scalar @val == 1 ) {   
    $form_input ->{$name} = $val[0];
  } else {                      
    $form_input ->{$name} = \@val;  # save value as an array ref
  }
}

Taken from : http://ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html