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ikegami
<p>XML::Simple's design is [https://stackoverflow.com/a/33273488/589924|extremely problematic]. So much so that the module's own [mod://XML::Simple|documentation] tells you not to use it. wtf are you doing using this module?!
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<blockquote><p><i>XML::Simple and ISO-8859-1 encoding buggy?</i></blockquote>
<p>Decoding is handled by the XML parser. You didn't specify which XML parser you are using. (No, XML::Simple is not an XML parser.) XML::Parser is commonly used by XML::Simple, and XML::Parser handles iso-8859-1 just fine.
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use 5.014;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple qw( :strict ); # Taken from OP.
use File::Slurper qw( read_binary );
my $xml = read_binary($ARGV[0]);
# Make sure we know which parser is being used.
local $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';
# Taken from OP.
my $doc = XMLin($xml, ForceArray => 1,KeyAttr => [ ]);
say sprintf "%vX", $doc;
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$ perl a.pl a_latin1.xml
E9
$ perl a.pl a_utf8.xml
E9
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<p>On a terminal execting UTF-8:
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$ cat a_utf8.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?><root>é</root>
$cat a_latin1.xml | iconv -f iso-8859-1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><root>é</root>
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