Your XML parser is expecting UTF-8 by default, and that's exactly what you are using here, so why would you change that? Otherwise there is Text::Iconv which can convert almost any character encoding into what you need.

Using the euro char has its own particular weirdness in connection with XML as explained here: Euro-XML (xml.com). This has more to do with abusive use of control characters on some widely used platforms than anything else, however.

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Cheers, Joe

I parse the XML myself.
The problem is that if in XML characters like chr(0x12) are not allowed. so i convert them. But i am unable to convert the longer cht(0x1234) to ሴ.

I am reading the xml.com article. I hope it helps.

Something else to keep in mind is your XML's default encoding. I ran into problems where valid XML (according to one system) were being rejected by another. It turns out that the original system was assuming the XML was encoded in iso-8859-1 while my system took a default of utf-8. The problem was easily fixed by adding a XML declaration with the correct encoding.

Default:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Correct (for me in this instance):
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>

use MIME::Base64;
$weird = chr(0x2a);
$encoded = encode_base64($weird);
#$decoded = decode_base64($encoded);

$string = "Weird char: $encoded.\n";
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This is also easier to read and more flexible than a regexp. :)

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hiseldl
What time is it? It's Camel Time!

Found it.


use utf8;
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after adding this to the header of the script, it is possible to use \x{1234} in a regexp. Thanks for all the help guys.