Based on your updated post (thanks for the added details -- that helps), it looks like you are trying to use ISO-8859-1 in your xml data file of phrase translations, and one step or another in the process is converting these to utf8 for you. (Maybe Class::PhraseBook is doing that, I don't know.)

It might not be surprising that the conversion to utf8 is happening -- it makes things easier for multi-language text processing, in general. If you want to make sure that your final output reverts back to 8859-1, you'll probably want to use a PerlIO encoding layer on STDOUT -- like this: 

binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(iso-8859-1)";

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Do that before you start printing any page content. (update: and hope that some clever module doesn't reset it to ":utf8" for you later on)

Alternatively, you could just "go with the flow", have your page content written as utf8 text, and change your browser to use utf8 instead of 8859-1 -- probably no code-changes needed at all if you do it that way.

(update: when I set my browser to use utf8, the OP shows the correct character in the example that the OP says is "wrong")

In reply to Re: can't get å,ä and ö to work with Class::PhraseBook by graff
in thread can't get å,ä and ö to work with Class::PhraseBook by boboson

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