I've tried a few different encodings in the original file with the <?xml version='1.0' encoding='blah'?> declaration: iso-8859-1, utf8 and utf16 (although the latter refused to parse the file).

The data isn't being output by XML::Simple, rather it's coming out such as: 

use XML::Simple;
my $x = XMLin('myxmlfile.xml');
print "This costs: " . $x->{item}->{cost} ."\n";

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Where as an example the XML is: 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
<catalogue>
  <item>
    <cost>£300</cost>
  </item>
</catalogue>

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i.e. The values are being pulled out individually and inserted into a new file (which in the real case ends up producing a PDF, but the same behaviour occurs if I drop the values into a plain ASCII file or a HTML doc)

Now I need to find a version of Text::Iconv that I can use on my system (ActivePerl 5.6.1 (Build 638) MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)

--- Jay

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In reply to Re^2: Problem reading £ sign with XML::Simple by gothic_mallard
in thread Problem reading £ sign with XML::Simple by gothic_mallard

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