my guess is that you need to add use utf8;

It tells Perl to treat the source code as utf8 instead of ASCII and this includes literal strings like 'abc...едц'

See utf8 for more.

update

This

åäö

looks very much like use utf8 is missing.

Without Perl will interpret the multibyte characters as single bytes.

U+00E5    е    c3 a5    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE

hence

Ã¥

in HTML encoding of single bytes.

use utf8

will activate the utf8 flag for variables populated from literal strings, in order to treat multibytes as character strings.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: UTF8 Output with XML::Feed? (use utf8) by LanX
in thread UTF8 Output with XML::Feed? by mldvx4

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