[Templates] Apache::Template, Plugins and UTF-8 OH MY!

[Todd Freeman]

Good day all... as I bet you guessed I have a problem. :)

I have a Perl module that I have made to handle a little news and events 
system. Now this application is just a simple "call mysql and dump out 
the data" type deal.

Then along come end users...  they just love to copy and paste stuff 
from Word into the entries so I end up with "funky quotes" from beyond.

My application handles these fine for some reason without doing anything 
at all. My plugins that get called from templates processed by 
Apache::Template on the other hand get slaughtered.

The data for both the plugin and the mod_perl handled pages both come 
from the EXACT same function and a Data::Dumper call proves that it is 
returning the EXACT same data in it's 'return' to each program. I am 
using templates (in fact the same ones) to create both outputs.

However, the plugin created output is wrong.

Here is an example of the hex values output for a funky "start" double 
quote:
     My App:  E2 80 9C
     Plugin:  C3 A2 C2 80 C2 9C

So basically...  anybody got ideas?  :)

I am the stereotypical "stupid American" and although I know how to 
speak some Japanese I have yet to do anything with extended character 
sets so...

Thanks for any info!
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