[mv] double-byte language problem

["zhms" <zhangmosong@hotmail.com>]

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(in minivend 4.04, Redhat 6.0, perl 5.6.0.)

i am working with the "simple" demo. when i changed category column in products.txt into Chinese, the index page was still OK, but when i clicked the link(it's in Chinese), the results page was not in good state. the category name was in chaos.

i noticed that (in results page, pages/results.html)
[value-extended mv_searchspec joiner=" |    "}
in TITLE got null output when 
[value-extended name=mv_searchspec joiner=" |    "]
in H1 got turbid strings that couldn't be recognized. but when i used a hex edit to study it, i found that these double-byte characters was all escaped by a "\" byte by byte. That's why i saw the chaos.
in pages/index.html, 
[area href=scan
    arg='
        sf=category
        se=[loop-code]
        tf=category,title
        ml=2
    '
]
when i used Chinese directly in place with "[loop-code]", i still got the chaos.

i tried to use MiniMate to edit the products, still, i got failure. For i was just begin to study perl, so i was not able to hack into the code to find out the truth, so could anyone so earnest help me settle the problem?

thanks in advanced
ecool
2000.5.26
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