multipart/form-data and double byte input values

[vermaha]

I have a problem with posting form containing double byte chars.
The form contains a couple of textfields and a file field for uploading attachments.

Everything works fine if I only use regular characters (files get uploaded, text gets inserted into db), as soon as I input Japanese text, the strings inserted into the db get messed up under the condition that the form looks like this:

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="someurl">

Now when I take out the enctype="multipart/form-data" from the <form> tag, the double byte field values are processed correctly, but the file upload doesn't work.

Any ideas to solve this?

[ScubaKing22]

Well since I've never really encountered this problem nor the need to use double-byte characters, I can't give you an exact solution. But one idea would be to simply create two forms, one with enctype="multipart/form-data" and the other without.

Hope this helps 😉