I'm running the following: 
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 628 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveS
+tate.com
Built 15:41:05 Jul  4 2001

Unicode-String   [2.06   ] String of Unicode characters (UCS2/UTF16)
XML-RSS          [0.95   ] creates and updates RSS files
XML-Parser       [2.27   ] A Perl module for parsing XML documents

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These are the results I got (a,b) from your program compared to your 5.6.0 results (1,2): 
1: GröÃter Anstieg seit März 1998 - Größter Anstieg seit März 1998 
2: GröÃter Anstieg seit März 1998 - Größter Anstieg seit März 1998 

a: Größter Anstieg seit März 1998 - Größter Anstieg seit März 1998 
b: Größter Anstieg seit März 1998 - Größter Anstieg seit März 1998

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Note the one extra character in each. Adding  use locale; made no difference. I've looked closely for cut/paste errors but don't see any. Think the module versions have anything to do with it?

--Jim

In reply to Re: Bug in Perl 5.6.1 ? by jlongino
in thread Bug in Perl 5.6.1 ? by gregorovius

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