Just 2 cents, really: as far as I know an XML parser is required to return UTF-8. You can write a document in any encoding your system supports, but when you feed it to a parser, it must return UTF-8

AFAIK

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->make($love) ;
}