somehow the encode and docode dosent work!


my code(snippet) looks like this
use XML::SMART;
use Encode;

my $XML = XML::Smart->new(q`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<MSR-ISSUE xmlns="" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instan
+ce" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="my.xsd">
</MSR-ISSUE>`, 'XML::Smart::Parser');

my $test_in_incoming_xml = "Auch wenn man es nach Jahren guter Beschäf
+tigung kaum verstehen kann";

my $decoded_string  = decode("utf8", $test_in_incoming_xml);
$XML->{'MSR-ISSUE'}{'SHORT-NAME'}->content(0,$decoded_string);
my $xmlfile = "C:\\Temp\\TestFile.xml";
$XML->save($xmlfile, nometagen => 1, forceutf8 => 1);

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Output comes like this in my XML under SHORT-NAME node "Auch wenn man es nach Jahren guter Besch&#65533;ftigung kaum verstehen kan"
The XML seems to be valid with utf8 encoding.
Lets i want to read this xml again and insert this to a database field and when i use the encode, it doesnt seem to work 
#...xml handling...

my $XMLRead = XML::Smart->new("C:\\Temp\\TestFile.xml", 'XML::Smart::P
+arser');
my $sendername = $XMLRead->{'MSR-ISSUE'}{'SHORT-NAME'};
my $encoded_string  = encode("cp1250", $sendername);

print $encoded_string;

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This prints nothing. When i add a static text to the vriable $sendername the script prints like below 
#...xml initi...
my $sendername = $XMLRead->{'MSR-ISSUE'}{'SHORT-NAME'};
$sendername = $sendername . " Test";
my $encoded_string  = encode("cp1250", $sendername);
print $encoded_string;

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The output is printed like this
Auch wenn man es nach Jahren guter Besch?ftigung kaum verstehen kann Test
Basically i would expect the Umlaut back after encoding. Am i doing anything wrong here?
Kindly help me

In reply to Re^2: UTF in Perl by KarthikK
in thread UTF in Perl by KarthikK

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