I'll look at your code in more detail soon (though I worry about the fact that it seems to use some sort of local library that I might not be able to get from CPAN...)

In the meantime (just for grins, as we say ;), you might try running your sample XML file through this tool that I posted a while back: tlu -- TransLiterate Unicode

If the file really does contain any utf8 Russian character(s), a command line like this will tell you the exact unicode code point(s) and character name(s): 

   tlu  -o uf  test.xml | grep CYRILLIC

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If there are Russian characters in your file, but they aren't really utf8-encoded (trust me, it happens!), then "tlu" will either report errors or else spit out "FFFD ... REPLACEMENT CHARACTER", and that is most likely the source of all your trouble -- you would need to convert the data from ... (whatever encoding it really is) into true and valid utf8.

In reply to Re^3: Using a variable with UTF8 content coming from XPATH findvalue by graff
in thread Using a variable with UTF8 content coming from XPATH findvalue by inguanzo

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