Hello. I have to similar machines, running the same OS (Debian Sarge) and both use perl from the deb packages. So, everything should work the same... But, I get different results regarding UTF encodings. Running this script on the two machines does not give the same result and I don't know why: 
andre@blogs-dev:~$ perl -e 'use Encode; use LWP::Simple; use Data::Dum
+per; my $html = get("http://ljsapo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full"); u
+se XML::Simple; my $parsed = XMLin($html); my $text = $parsed->{"entr
+y"}->{"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104370.post-115522283622549946"}->
+{"content"}->{"content"}; print Dumper(Encode::is_utf8($text));'
$VAR1 = '';
andre@blogs-dev:~$

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andre.cruz@blogs1:~$  perl -e 'use Encode; use LWP::Simple; use Data::
+Dumper; my $html = get("http://ljsapo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full")
+; use XML::Simple; my $parsed = XMLin($html); my $text = $parsed->{"e
+ntry"}->{"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104370.post-115522283622549946"
+}->{"content"}->{"content"}; print Dumper(Encode::is_utf8($text));'
$VAR1 = '1';
andre.cruz@blogs1:~$

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They both use the same Perl package version: 
andre@blogs-dev:~$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

andre@blogs-dev:~$

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Also they have the same locale settings: 
andre@blogs-dev:~$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
andre@blogs-dev:~$

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This script just fetches a known feed url and illustrates my problem on one of the XML nodes... The string the XML parser returns has the utf flag ON only on one of the machines... Does anyone know what is the difference between these two machines?

In reply to Encoding differences by EDevil

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