[Catalyst] Fix for content-length issue introduced with Catalyst 5.8.x

[Mark Blackman]

On 17 Feb 2012, at 13:23, Dominic Germain wrote:

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> Using Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding instead of "hacking" Catalyst.pm works, but it brakes some other parts of our code (form posted containing some accent are screwed up).
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> Reverting Catalyst.pm to old fashion bytes::length() is way simpler...
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> Anyone aware of drawback using it instead of length()?

No short-term drawback, but Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding should
take care of decoding your inputs (your forms) *and* encoding your
outputs. If your forms are breaking, it sounds you might not be encoding
your data when it's written to the database where the form data is
stored.

- Mark