Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode(3)

NAME
Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode - Unicode aware Catalyst (old style)

SYNOPSIS
    # DO NOT USE THIS - Use Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding instead
    #                   which is both more correct, and handles more cases.
    use Catalyst qw[Unicode];

DESCRIPTION
On request, decodes all params from UTF-8 octets into a sequence of logical characters. On response, encodes body into UTF-8 octets.

Note that this plugin tries to autodetect if your response is encoded into characters before trying to encode it into a byte stream. This is bad as sometimes it can guess wrongly and cause problems.

As an example, latin1 characters such as e (e-accute) will not actually cause the output to be encoded as utf8.

Using Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding is much more recommended, and that also does additional things (like decoding file upload filenames and request parameters which this plugin does not).

This plugin should be considered deprecated, but is maintained as a large number of applications are using it already.

OVERLOADED METHODS

finalize
    Encodes body into UTF-8 octets.

prepare_parameters
    Decodes parameters into a sequence of logical characters.

SEE ALSO
utf8, Catalyst.

AUTHORS
Christian Hansen, "<ch@ngmedia.com>"

Marcus Ramberg, "<mramberg@pcan.org>"

Jonathan Rockway "<jrockway@cpan.org>"

Tomas Doran, (t0m) "<bobtfish@bobtfish.net>"

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005 - 2009 the Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode "AUTHORS" as listed above.

LICENSE
This library is free software . You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.

POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

Around line 57:
    Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'e'. Assuming UTF-8