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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>if a URL parameter contains a Unicode character (e.g. <a href="http://www.example.com/?param=%D6lso%DF">www.example.com/?param=%D6lso%DF</a> which stands for param=Ölsoße), the parameter is not correctly parsed as Unicode.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I did the following to test it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Create a new Catalyst App: catalyst.pl UnicodeTest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Set Root.pm Controller to correct encoding by adding ‘use utf8;’ at the top of the file<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Then add the following lines to the Root.pm Controller in the index function (don’t forget to use Data::Dumper):<br>$c->log->debug(Dumper($c->req->params));<br>$c->log->debug(Dumper("Ölsoße"));<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>This outputs for the example url: localhost:3000/?param=%D6lso%DF:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US>[debug] $VAR1 = {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US> 'param' => "\x{fffd}lso\x{fffd}e"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US> };<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US>[debug] $VAR1 = '\x{d6}lso\x{df}e';<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>As you can see, the first output only contains one equal character: \x{fffd} which is obviously not the same as it should be: \x{d6}lso\x{df}e<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>I already tried adding the ‘encoding => 'UTF-8'’ config option, but this didn’t change anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>Am I missing a specific setting?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>My Catalyst version: 5.90097<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>Perl version: v5.18.2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>Thanks for your help!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>