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I have the following fairly simple script to parse BookMooch data:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI qw(:standard); use CGI::Carp; use WWW::Mechanize; use XML::Simple; use YAML; use Encode; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new; my $api_base = 'http://api.bookmooch.com/api/userid'; my $q = CGI->new; my $user = $q->param('user'); $mech->get("$api_base?userids=$user"); die "Failed to get user $user from BookMooch" unless $mech->success; print header, start_html, "\n" ; my $xml = $mech->content; # $xml = encode('iso-8859-1', $xml); (doesn't fix the problem) my $data = XMLin($xml); print pre(Dump($data)), end_html;

When I run it, I get the following output:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U +S"> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 +" /> </head> <body> :1492: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xA3 0x31 0x20 0x31 <condition>Good condition. 1970 edition with n +et cover price shown as 1 15s + ^ at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm line 31

Uncommenting the line with encode, doesn't make any difference. I'm new to UTF-8 and encoding. What's the correct incantation for what I'm doing?

The input data is Latin-1 as far as I'm aware, and it's b0rking on a pound sign '£'

Any help would be much appreciated

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