XML::Simple and UTF8

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

Hiho,

I've a problem with XML::Simple. After parsing XML i got back wrong language sings. It seems the uft8 will not converted into latin1 ..

eg. MySQL für Dummies
    -------^^
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This sign must be ü

I tried to use a code snippet like this (found here on perlmonks):

sub encode { # UTF-8 to latin1 regex from XML::TiePYX (thanks to mirod
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my($text) = @_;
$text =~ s{([\xc0-\xc3])(.)}{
  my $hi = ord($1);
  my $lo = ord($2);
  chr((($hi & 0x03) <<6) | ($lo & 0x3F))
 }ge;
return $text;
}
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This works on the local machine (win XP) but not on the real server with linux.

Do you have any Ideas or other solutions for this topic?

thx a lot Rufnex

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Re: XML::Simple and UTF8 by fglock (Vicar) on Jul 03, 2003 at 14:17 UTC
use Encode `For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1), $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: XML::Simple and UTF8 by grantm (Parson) on Jul 03, 2003 at 18:59 UTC
If you're outputting the results as a web page, then why not just add the appropriate header and send utf8? Everyone will be using utf-8 eventually (it makes things much simpler) so why not go with the flow rather than fight the current :-)	[reply]
Re: XML::Simple and UTF8 by bm (Hermit) on Jul 03, 2003 at 16:57 UTC
Are you using the same version of Perl on both your Linux and Win32 machines? Version 5.8 of Perl has much more robust support for UTF8 encoded files. I would upgrade if you are using an earlier version.	[reply]