Encoding issue using form

[Buddyholly83]

Hi guys and gals!

Been scratching my head about this for a week now and still don't have a solution.

I am making a form post to a web service using the following:

my $userAgent = new LWP::UserAgent;
		$userAgent -> timeout([10]);
		
		$response = $userAgent -> post($uri, 
			[
				Username => $username,
				Password => $password,
				Account => $account,
				Body => $body
			]
		);

It works fine for everything except when the $body value has a £ sign in it. The post converts the £ to %A3 - but for utf-8 url encoding £ should be converted to %C2%A3 because £ is outside the ASCII character set, and thus requires two bytes in UTF-8.

I think I need to change the charset the post uses to encode to ISO-8859-1 ?

Not sure what to do?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Buddyholly83]

Bump!