I'd be so glad if anybody could help me. Normally when I open a file an write a string like "Datensätze" to it, the "ä" is written as a single-byte character, which is what i need. "ä" is allowed in iso-latin-1 characterset. Now, in a huge module I've written, "ä" is suddenly output as "ä", which is the unicode representation. The problem is, that I really need the output to be iso-latin-1. I have no idea what causes perl to output a two-byte character. I have tried with "no utf-8", but it didn't help. The problem may be due to me loading XML::SimpleObject or HTML::Entities. Does anybody happen to know if one of those modules sets a global switch so that output is in unicode format? Would you mind sending your reply to jpmnk /at/ grossman.de as well, as to make sure I receive asap? Thank you very much for your help, Björn

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