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| -rwxr-xr-x | InternetSecure.pm | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/InternetSecure.pm b/InternetSecure.pm index c7f71b7..8590efb 100755 --- a/InternetSecure.pm +++ b/InternetSecure.pm @@ -617,15 +617,13 @@ be left undefined. =head2 Character encoding -Since communication to/from InternetSecure is encoded with UTF-8, all Unicode -characters are theoretically available when submitting information via -B<submit>(). (Further restrictions may be imposed by InternetSecure itself.) - -When using non-ASCII characters, all data provided to B<submit>() should either -be in the current native encoding (typically latin-1, unless it was modified -via the C<encoding> pragma), or be decoded via the C<Encode> module. -Conversely, all data returned after calling B<submit>() will be automatically -decoded. +When using non-ASCII characters, all data provided to B<contents>() should +have been decoded beforehand via the C<Encode> module, unless your data is in +ISO-8859-1 and you haven't meddled with the C<encoding> pragma. (Please +don't.) + +InternetSecure currently does not handle characters outside of ISO-8859-1, so +these will be replaced with C<?> before being transmitted. =head1 EXPORT |