XML::Twig and file encoding

slugger415 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, another XML::Twig question. My original files are UTF8 encoded, but after I run my script they are ANSI encoded. Special characters such as German small sharp s ( ß when encoded) still appear in the output, but don't display properly in my XML editor.

I've set keep_encoding, which does save the file in UTF8, but produces some odd character strings and spacing.

Any thoughts on this? thanks as always, Scott

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Re: XML::Twig and file encoding by Anonymous Monk on Jul 30, 2014 at 19:05 UTC
... somethings wrong ... Great :) prove it Finish this program, post it, and post the output `#!/usr/bin/perl -- use Path::Tiny qw/ path /; use Data::Dump qw/ dd /; my $infile = 'three-lines-unicode.xml'; my $outfile = 'three-lines-uniWHAT.xml'; dd( path( $infile )->slurp_utf8 ); getTwiggy( $infile , $outfile ); dd( path( $outfile )->slurp_raw ); sub getTwiggy { ## minimal demo of Twig not what you want } __END__` [download] But you probably don't want to use http://xmltwig.org/xmltwig/twig_dev.html#METHODS_XML_Twig_new_keep_encoding `This is a (slightly?) evil option: if the XML document is not UTF-8 encoded` xmltwig.org keep-encoding site:xmltwig.org keep-encoding	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: XML::Twig and file encoding by slugger415 (Monk) on Jul 31, 2014 at 17:42 UTC
getting an error, maybe I coded something wrong here. (Running on Win7 BTW - should've mentioned.) `Error open (<:unix) on 'twiggy-WHAT.xml': No such file or directory at C:\working\scripts\ifx-make-conrefs\twiggy.pl line 9.` my code `#!/usr/bin/perl -- use Path::Tiny qw/ path /; use Data::Dump qw/ dd /; my $infile = 'twiggy-test.xml'; my $outfile = 'twiggy-WHAT.xml'; dd( path( $infile )->slurp_utf8 ); getTwiggy( $infile , $outfile ); dd( path( $outfile )->slurp_raw ); sub getTwiggy { ## minimal demo of Twig not what you want } __END__` [download] I do get my XML printed to screen. thanks for looking at this.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: XML::Twig and file encoding by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2014 at 02:25 UTC
You missed the point :) You didn't finish the program :) you did not complete sub getTwiggy which is supposed to create $outfile How else would I know what you're doing with XML::Twig and what goes wrong?	[reply]
Re^4: XML::Twig and file encoding by slugger415 (Monk) on Aug 01, 2014 at 17:08 UTC
Re^5: XML::Twig and file encoding by slugger415 (Monk) on Aug 01, 2014 at 17:11 UTC
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