How to remove CGI default meta charset encoding in Perl?
cgi, character-encoding, encoding, meta, perl
Solution
add an `-encoding` parameter to `start_html` and don't build the meta element by hand. (despite what the CGI docs suggest you do).
print $cgi->start_html(-title => "Test", -encoding => "utf-8")
Problem
Using the Perl code ``` #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI ":all"; use Encode; my $cgi = new CGI; $cgi->charset('utf-8'); print $cgi->header(-type => 'text/html', -charset => 'utf-8'); print $cgi->start_html(-title => 'Test', -head => meta({-http_equiv => 'Content-Type', -content => 'text/html; charset=utf-8'})); my $text = 'test'; # for now Encode::from_to($text, 'latin1', 'utf8'); print $cgi->p($text); print $cgi->end_html; ``` I am getting the following output: ``` Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Test</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <p>test</p> </body> ``` And I don't know why `<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />` is in the output and I don't know how to get rid of it. All suggestions will be appreciated.