Encoding issue

prem_pratick

Hi,

I am having a Template the populates drop downs/select box using call server.

i.e.

Select 1 --> Country - We use inline callout for this.
Select 2 --> State - We use callserver for this. We pass the country name and get the corresponding state names.

So when a user changes Country, the state drop down will also change.

We are facing issue when we Select China. The State names are in Chinese.

- We pass the country name to a .ipl (using callserver).
- The .ipl uses a perl subroutine to get the list of state for the country and saves the same in an array. (StateOptions)
- We are using utf8::encode($label); to encode the same state name while adding it to the array.
- "StateOptions" is the array name that has the state names. We are unable to decode it when we are using parent.getScriptFrame();

Can any one help me on this.

Rick Poulin

Using utf8::encode($label) only works if your browser will properly interpret the response as UTF-8. You can help it along by changing your content-type header to include a charset:
print "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";

If that still doesn't work, you may have to print the Javascript strings using unicode escapes, e.g. "北京" should be "\u5317\u4EAC". You can use a combination of a regex and the pack() function to convert your string to such a notation.