NAME

       Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode - Unicode aware Catalyst (old style)

SYNOPSIS

           # DO NOT USE THIS - Use Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding instead
           #                   which is both more correct, and handles more cases.
           use Catalyst qw[Unicode];

DESCRIPTION

       On request, decodes all params from UTF-8 octets into a sequence of logical characters. On
       response, encodes body into UTF-8 octets.

       Note that this plugin tries to autodetect if your response is encoded into characters
       before trying to encode it into a byte stream. This is bad as sometimes it can guess
       wrongly and cause problems.

       As an example, latin1 characters such as é (e-accute) will not actually cause the output
       to be encoded as utf8.

       Using Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding is much more recommended, and that also does
       additional things (like decoding file upload filenames and request parameters which this
       plugin does not).

       This plugin should be considered deprecated, but is maintained as a large number of
       applications are using it already.

OVERLOADED METHODS

       finalize
           Encodes body into UTF-8 octets.

       prepare_parameters
           Decodes parameters into a sequence of logical characters.

SEE ALSO

       utf8, Catalyst.

AUTHORS

       Christian Hansen, "<ch@ngmedia.com>"

       Marcus Ramberg, "<mramberg@pcan.org>"

       Jonathan Rockway "<jrockway@cpan.org>"

       Tomas Doran, (t0m) "<bobtfish@bobtfish.net>"

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2005 - 2009 the Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode "AUTHORS" as listed above.

LICENSE

       This library is free software . You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as perl itself.