Hi all
I'm having problems using XML::Simple to parse a data file containing the '£' symbol.

The data appears to read in correctly without error, but when I come to output it, the symbol appears as '£'.

Trawling as much documentation as I could find, SuperSearching and googling it looks like this is a problem with the encoding - the XML::Parser transforms everything to UTF-8 internally which can't handle '£' correctly. If I understand correctly it performs a bit shift that changes it into the 2-byte char that gets output.

The problem I have is how to get the correct symbol back when I read the data back out.

I've tried playing with the various encoding options of XML::Simple (and I've tried XML::DOM also) but to no avail. Maybe I'm missing something obvious by staring at it too hard.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Update

Thanks for all the helpful advice everyone! I think I have a few possible solutions now to the problem (which I'll have to find which will work best under the system / network architecture that we have here) which is a lot more than the "none" that I had when I started :)

You've saved me a lot of torn out hair :)

--- Jay

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If in doubt ask.

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In reply to Problem reading £ sign with XML::Simple by gothic_mallard

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