Hi,
I have been working for a while already on this problem. I read many of the already valuable available documentation from perlmonks experts, but this UTF8 support doesn't seem to be working correclty in Perl :(
I'm reading a XML utf8 russian file and at the moment I'm trying to extract the element content and pass it to another XML structure, Perl is not reading UTF8 charcaters but trying to read per byte as a charcater: 
$SourceHash->{$order_value} =  $import_StringTable_xp_node->findvalue(
+"value[\@language!=\"English\"]/text");
print XML_DIFF_FH $SourceHash->{$order_value} . "\n";
$SourceHash->{$order_value} = pack ("U*", unpack("C*", $SourceHash->{$
+order_value}));
print XML_DIFF_FH $SourceHash->{$order_value} . "\n";
print STDERR Encode::is_utf8($SourceHash->{$order_value})?"1":"0";

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Even when the Filehandle is opened in utf8 mode this is not working. I can see the UTF8 flag is active with the pack conversion (this was the only mechanism that allow me to activate the flag, the other approaches doesn't seem to work i.e. decode utf8). I already tried : use bytes, use utf8 but nothing works. Any help will be highly appreciated ! Cheers PerlMonks ! Inguanzo

In reply to Using a variable with UTF8 content coming from XPATH findvalue by inguanzo

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