Before I begin, I'm using Perl5.005_3 (and cannot upgrade), so I can't use Encode. That would be my preferred solution, but it's not allowed by my environment.

I want to be able to use XML::Parser, but the strings in many of my templates come from a database that has them encoded. Now, all the European encodings are handled just fine. But, the Chinese (Big5), Japanese (Shift-JIS), and Korean (Euc-KR) encodings are not.

Does anyone know of any encoding files for XML::Parser (or any other XML parser) to handle these legacy encodings? Or, barring that, a way of converting them to UCS-2 or UTF8?

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In reply to Conversion of language encodings to UTF8 by dragonchild

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