As part of a build process I have a script that checks various HTML documents using HTML::Lint. Some of the recent documents use utf-8 and, despite a content="text/html; charset=utf-8" attribute in the HTML head meta tag, HTML::Lint chokes on the utf-8 characters. Is there a work around for this?

Sample code follows:

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use HTML::Lint;

my $lint = HTML::Lint->new (only_types => HTML::Lint::Error::STRUCTURE
+);
my $html = do {local $/; <DATA>};

$lint->parse ($html);
$lint->eof ();

my @lintErrsOrg = map {$_->as_string ()} $lint->errors ();
print join "\nError Lint org: ", @lintErrsOrg;
  
__DATA__
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w
+3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>utf8 test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>ç</p>
</body>
</html>

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Prints:

 (8:1) Invalid character \xE7 should be written as &ccedil;

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Update: ya, hai, that was also posted by me. :)

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In reply to HTML::Lint and utf-8 document woes by GrandFather

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