PERL CGI Beginners - CGI and special characters

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CGI and special characters

Howard Fuchs

2004-05-22, 11:30 am

Hi all:

Here is my problem. I have a script which processes input from a
textarea which may have 'special characters' in it like ‘ or ’ etc.
Unfortunately what I am getting back are these â€˜ or â€™ respectively.

Script snippet start------------------

use CGI qw/:standard/;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$c = new CGI;
$ta = $c->param('ta');

open (TIDYFILE,">c:/tmp/tidied.html");
print TIDYFILE $ta;
close (TIDYFILE);

Script snippet end------------------

Any help appreciated.

Howard

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