How does Catalyst interact with Unicode and encodings?

Catalyst is a Perl web framework that fully supports Unicode and handles text encoding effortlessly. It allows developers to work with Unicode strings and ensures proper encoding in web applications.

In Catalyst, when dealing with user input, it is essential to handle different encodings correctly to avoid any issues with character representation. The framework handles UTF-8 by default, making it easier to develop applications that support multiple languages.

Here's an example of handling Unicode in a Catalyst controller:

# Example of handling Unicode in a Catalyst controller package MyApp::Controller::Example; use Moose; use namespace::autoclean; BEGIN { extends 'Catalyst::Controller'; } sub index : Path : Args(0) { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; # Assume we get some UTF-8 encoded input from the user my $input = $c->req->params->{input}; # Encode the input to UTF-8 use Encode; my $encoded_input = encode('UTF-8', $input); # Now process the input $c->response->body("You submitted: $encoded_input"); } __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; 1;

Catalyst Perl Unicode Encodings Web Framework