Hi Mirod,

thanks for answering my post. To start, here is what I get when I run your 'ts' command:


This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux
XML::Twig: 2.02
XML::Parser: 2.30
bash: xmlwf: command not found

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So maybe this is a problem which only occurs with older versions of Twig? Is there anything I have to change in my code if I upgrade to the newest version?

I didn't mention Twig in the title of the post because I thought this is a problem with concatenating strings that have different encodings, not something which is specific to Twig. I thought the source of the problem is probably that the attribute values are in UTF-8, but the text was in the original encoding (Latin1), and the checks I did seemed to confirm this. I had had similar experiences with XML::LibXML, so I thought, this is probably a normal behavior.

Still, my question remains: is there any way to find the encoding of a (perl) string? This would help me a lot to avoid similar problems in future.

Thanks,

pike

In reply to Re: Re: Problems with string concatenation and encodings by pike
in thread Problems with string concatenation and encodings by pike

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