PERL Programming - Form post encoding problem

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Form post encoding problem

buddyholly83

2006-01-04, 3:18 am

Hi guys and gals!

Been scratching my head about this for a w

now and still don't have a solution.

I am making a form post to a web service using the following:

code:
my $userAgent = new LWP::UserAgent;
        $userAgent -> timeout([10]);
        
        $response = $userAgent -> post($uri,
            [
                Username => $username,
                Password => $password,
                Account => $account,
                Body => $body
            ]
        );

It works fine for everything except when the $body value has a £ sign in it. The post converts the £ to %A3 - but for utf-8 url encoding £ should be converted to %C2%A3 because £ is outside the ASCII character set, and thus requires two bytes in UTF-8.

I think I need to change the charset the post uses to encode to UTF-8 rather than ISO-8859-1 ?

Not sure what to do?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

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