First UTF-8 is perfectly capable of handling £, it's just that it encodes it differently from your original encoding, which you did not specify BTW.

Did you search the XML::Simple docs for 'encoding'? The second set of hits gives you a possible solution:

OutputFile => <file specifier> # out - handy

       The default behaviour of "XMLout()" is to return the XML as a s
+tring.
       If you wish to write the XML to a file, simply supply the filen
+ame
       using the 'OutputFile' option.

       This option also accepts an IO handle object - especially usefu
+l in
       Perl 5.8.0 and later for writing out in an encoding other than 
+UTF-8,
       eg:

         open my $fh, '>:encoding(iso-8859-1)', $path or die "open($pa
+th): $!";
         XMLout($ref, OutputFile => $fh);

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Other alternatives include post-processing the output file with iconv, Text::Iconv or using Encode if you are running perl 5.8.*

In reply to Re: Problem reading £ sign with XML::Simple by mirod
in thread Problem reading £ sign with XML::Simple by gothic_mallard

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