Re:[MacPerl-WebCGI] translating special characters from form elements

allan <[email protected]>wrote:
>usually i translate some of these characters ....
>so my question is: is there a built-in way to do it via cgi.pm or do i
>need to make my own function?

you're not being very clear as to why you want to translate chars - are you
worried that  you're going to get control characters which might be used to
hack your  server account or are you dealing with non ASCII (Japanese,
Chinese) text and want to convert the contents of the text field to hex or
binary to preserve the original input or are you trying to cosmetically
encode the contents of your text  to make it more difficult to read or are
you worried that the user might put HTML markup into the text
field.......or....?

Robin