[Petal] Recap on utf8 encoding issues and PerlIO patch

[Josh Narins]

> > > (after eliminating the issue of the browser trying to display utf8
> > > as Western ISO-8859-1)
> > 
> > We have discovered that browsers sometimes do this even when
> > presented with all the right hints.  We currently put this <snip>
> 
> To add another tip to the bucket, I've discovered that even though I
> have Apache setup with 'AddDefaultCharset utf-8', I would get
> dynamically generated webpages coming through with the charset set to
> ISO-8859-1. It turns out that if you are using CGI.pm to create queries,
> it automatically defaults to this charset (aka, latin1).
> 
> This situation leads to a couple of options when using Petal with
> CGI.pm:

<message source="mod_perl community">
Please don't use CGI.pm
</message>

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