Re: JSON character encoding

is Youtube using a mix of encodings?

Maybe. One way to tell would be to check the response headers. Did you try that? It might be that LWP::Simple doesn't support that in which case you could switch to LWP::UserAgent or similar. Another way might be to specify your desired encoding in the request's Accept header and see if you then get the correct encoding in all responses.

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Re^2: JSON character encoding by Bman70 (Acolyte) on May 29, 2017 at 18:37 UTC
hippo, I tried checking the response headers and got this: content-type: application/json	[reply]
Re^3: JSON character encoding by RonW (Parson) on May 31, 2017 at 22:06 UTC
Was there a `Content-Encoding` header?	[reply] [d/l]