+
+sub is_valid_utf8
+{
+ my $str = join ('', @_);
+
+ # Taken from here: <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8>
+ return ($str =~ m/^(
+ [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII
+ | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte
+ | \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs
+ | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte
+ | \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates
+ | \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3
+ | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15
+ | \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16
+ )*$/x);
+}
+
+sub param_utf8
+{
+ my @args = @_;
+ my @ret = ();
+
+ @ret = grep { is_valid_utf8 ($_) } (param (@args));
+ $_ = decode ('UTF-8', $_) for (@ret);
+ return (wantarray () ? @ret : $ret[0]);
+}
+
+sub uri_escape_utf8
+{
+ return (uri_escape (encode ('UTF-8', shift)));
+}