I don't think I'm getting confused by the flag as I'm not trying to read or write it. It's the text that talks about character strings that are UTF-8 encoded that may be confusing me, since the output is decoded. I thought I was creating the XML using bytes in the 6th line of my code, but if I'm getting that wrong, I would be interested. But that's not the real problem as I'm getting the same two bytes in my code and in the real files. The only method to which I believe I'm supplying values is the parser. I believe that I am putting encoded data in and getting decoded data back. That is the problem I am trying to solve - I can't see from the docs how to get encoded data back.

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Re^4: UTF-8 and XML::LibXML by davies
in thread UTF-8 and XML::LibXML by davies

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