I solved the character encoding issue that I wrote about earlier, but I don't
understand why the fix works. I'm hoping someone can explain this to me!<br><br>The
issue was that non-ascii chars were appearing as junk BUT only when
retrieved via ajax calls. Otherwise, they displayed fine. The junk
display was due to them being interpreted as ISO-8859-1, but I could
not figure out why the browser was interpreting that way. All my data
is handled as UTF-8.<br>
<br>The problem was fixed by calling Encode::decode on the data prior to sending back via ajax. BUT WHY?<br><br>I
am using the JSON view to render ajax responses, and it sets the
charset header correctly to UTF-8. Of course, even when you decode,
perl still represents as "internal" utf8. But why should this be
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