CGI Unicode issue?

[Michael Ströder]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> 
> After a fair amount of web digging, I've learned that these codes are
> base64-encoded Unicode-16 characters.
> [..]
> However, I don't understand why I see these.  There is nothing in the CGI
> environment variables that indicates I should be expecting any kind of
> unusual encoding.

You should tell the web client which charset you're expecting by
setting accept-charset attribute in the <form> tag.

Example:

<form [..other attributes..] accept-charset="utf-8">

Ciao, Michael.