parser is XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser file: utf8-2.xml Wide character in say at sax_utf.pl line 36. characters for elt: Ç foo € bytes for elt: C7 20 66 6F 6F 20 20AC SV = PV(0x2a61748) at 0x250ade8 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,IsCOW,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x2cefc98 "\303\207 foo \342\202\254"\0 [UTF8 "\x{c7} foo \x{20ac}"] CUR = 10 LEN = 12 COW_REFCNT = 1