Hi Monks , Am in a bit of confusion here with no clue on what is causing this exception. I have written a perl script which extracts rows of data from SharePoint list using SOAP::Lite Module. The extraction works properly , but in certain scenarios the special character symbols are converted when i open the CSV file which is created by Perl script. Part of Code snippet which extract the mentioned columns and write it into a CSV file. I have already parsing them as UTF-8 
my $element_rowlimit = name( 'rowLimit' => 10000 );
#print $soap->serializer->envelope( 'method' => 'GetListItems', $eleme
+nt_listname, $element_query, $element_rowlimit );
my $som = $soap->GetListItems( $element_listname, $element_query, $ele
+ment_rowlimit );
my @results = $som->dataof('//GetListItemsResult/listitems/data/row');

    my $oc = Text::CSV->new({sep_char => ',', eol => $/ })
        or die Text::CSV->error_diag();
    open my $of, '>', 'Load_Data.csv' or die $!;
    binmode $of, ':utf8';
           chomp @results;
           foreach my $data (@results) {
              my $item = $data->attr;
              chomp $item;
              $oc->print($of,[@$item{qw( ows_Job_x0020_ID ows_Justific
+ation )}]);

 }
close $of;

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Lets say the Value of Justification column in Sharepoint is as : "RMS Roughness (Rq) is ~3.7Å for both wafers." But, when extracted by perl , the comment is changed to following : "RMS Roughness (Rq) is ~3.7Ã for both wafers."

In reply to Parsing UTF-8 characters (Å is changed to Ã) by ashesh28

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