Try this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Encode qw( is_utf8 );
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $raw_file = do { local $/; <> };

my $xml = XMLin( $raw_file, forcearray => [], suppressempty => undef, 
+);

print Dumper ( $xml );
print is_utf8 $xml->{'artist'};
print "\n";

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Does Perl say the UTF-8 flag is on? It should not, by the dump of your hash. Interestingly, XML::Simple converts to UTF-8 for me (and that's a good thing; maybe you should look into how to ask it to do so).

The next question, then, is what encoding your terminal assumes. I have no idea at all how to find that out for a Windows box though… Apparently, it has a different opinion of what chr 0xF3 means than the one defined in ISO-8859-1.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Character Conversion Conundrum by Aristotle
in thread Character Conversion Conundrum by SheridanCat

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