my ($usernum, $userid, $usercnum, $userfirstname, $usersurname, $userbranch, $branchname, $userflags, $emailaddress, $branchprinter, $persona)= @_;

    my ($usernum, $userid, $usercnum, $userfirstname, $usersurname, $userbranch, $branchname, $userflags, $emailaddress, $branchprinter, $persona) =

    map { Encode::is_utf8( $_ ) ? $_ : Encode::decode('UTF-8', $_) } # CGI::Session doesn't handle utf-8, so we decode it here

    @_;