I am trying to parse an XML document with UTF-8 characters using XML::Twig, but I can't seem to deal with the encoding properly. 

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Twig;

my $xml = do { local $/; <DATA>; };

#my $conv = XML::Twig::encode_convert( 'latin1'); # failed
my $conv = 'latin1'; # failed

my $twig = XML::Twig->new( input_filter => $conv );
$twig->parse( $xml );

__DATA__
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<Text>5CH (the BACKSLASH ý\ý in ISO-IR 6) shall</Text>

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I don't necessarily need to preserve the unicode characters (conversion or masking is fine).

I read the fine manual and fired off a Super Search or two, but I'm still stuck. Please enlighten me. :-)

In reply to XML::Twig and UTF-8 by bobf

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