Help with Encoding Extended Characters

[Sean O'Dwyer]

Hi,

I have data coming into a script from a Web form. Everything's fine and
running normally, but when the Perl script sends the data via e-mail to
my (Hispanic) client the extended characters are munged...

D'a
DIRECCIîN
CîDIGO POSTAL
DIRECCIîN PAêS: Espa-a

....when they should read...

Día
DIRECCIÓN
CÓDIGO POSTAL
DIRECCIÓN PAÍS: España

These characters are embedded into my script as follows...

print MAIL "TELÉFONO: $variable\n";
print MAIL "DIRECCIÓN: $variable\n";
print MAIL "CÓDIGO POSTAL: $variable\n";
print MAIL "DIRECCIÓN PAÍS: $variable\n";
etc.

The problem may be related to the fact I'm Mac-based. I upload via FTP
binary and use UNIX linebreaks, etc., but obviously I'm not encoding the
extended chars correctly.

Any help appreciated.

Kind regards,

Sean