It is properly encoded using UTF-8. Even though "quindi è perfetto" shows up as "quindi Ú perfetto" in the page you linked, "è" is encoded as C3 A8 in the file you linked. So the question becomes: What encoding does Amazon expect? There could also be an issue in how the data was passed to Amazon.

Update: Removed bit about the file not being a CSV file and how to fix that. That's obviously not relevant since Amazon is actually able to read your data. Replaced it with more information about the encoding.

Thanks. I would assume they expect a UTF-8 format, although I can't say I've ever looked that deep into it. I did just do a google though, and can't believe I was so stupid! Sounds like Amazon wants ISO-8859-1 format, not UTF-8!!!!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17245206/uploading-amazon-inventory-utf-8-encoding

I'll give that a whirl now, and see how that works :)

Cheers

Andy

What happens if you force the file to be written as UTF-8?

open(my $output, '>:utf8', $filename) or die "Cannot write $filename: 
+$!";
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Considering that the CVS data is in UTF-8, which is a good idea anyway unless you have restrictions for it.

You should be using open with three arguments anyway, it is a good practice.

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Thanks - that did the job :) Can't believe I didn't think to try that first (I just assumed a big company like Amazon would use UTF-8)

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Cheers

Andy

Don't just replace :utf8 with :encoding(iso-latin-1).

Instead of

my $qfn = $CFG->{admin_root_path}."/amazon_template_tmp/it_other.csv";

open(my $fh, '>:encoding(iso-latin-1)', $qfn)
   or die("Can't create \"$qfn\": $!\n");

print($fh $the_contents);
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use

use Encode qw( encode );

my $qfn = $CFG->{admin_root_path}."/amazon_template_tmp/it_other.csv";

open(my $fh, '>:raw', $qfn)
   or die("Can't create \"$qfn\": $!\n");

print($fh encode('iso-latin-1', $the_contents, Encode::FB_HTMLCREF));
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That way, characters that can't be encoded using iso-latin-1 will be replaced with HTML escapes (e.g. ♠ ⇒ ♠).

Update: Corrected. Thank you.

Oops - its been a long day! (13 hours+). I've fixed it up. I think I need to call it a day and come back to this fresh tomorrow.

Your code looks fine to me, and I see accented characters on the amazon.it page. Can you restate your problem, please?

Thanks for the reply. So you don't see this?



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For me, every single charachter is broken.

Cheers

Andy

Hi, I had not scrolled down far enough to see the broken text: there is a large amount above that is properly rendered.

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