Oh Lords of Perl,

I'm in a world of UTF-8 hurt. I'm taking in xml feeds from all sorts of partners, in many different languages.

Seems like I'm occasionally getting invalid UTF-8 characters (surprise! surprise!). I tried using Encode 'is_utf8' - however, it appears to just check the utf8 flag. Is there something that might actually help me validate which lines and bytes have the offending data? Ideally, this would be something that would allow me to just "blank" out these characters. Or perhaps assume it's iso-8859-1 and try to convert it to utf8.

Or if no actually blessed CPAN modules, are there any magical regular expressions anyone can cook up? I tried searching around a bit without much luck. Maybe I'm missing something.

BTW, just made another donation to the offering plate. I hope the gods are good to me.

Thanks in advance!

In reply to UTF-8 Validation by daviddhall

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