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

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Where did you get XML::SMART from? I can't find that on cpan, only XML::Smart.

The XML seems to be valid with utf8 encoding.

Funny, when I run your script it prints the ä in Latin-1, which is a bug in the module (IMHO).

This works for me (ie produces a valid utf-8 XML file) (source file stored in UTF-8): 

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";

utf8::upgrade($test_in_incoming_xml);
$XML->{'MSR-ISSUE'}{'SHORT-NAME'}->content(0,$test_in_incoming_xml);
my $xmlfile = "foo.xml";
$XML->save($xmlfile, nometagen => 1, forceutf8 => 1);

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I'm pretty sure that the utf8::upgrade line is fundamentally wrong, and compensates for a XML::Smart bug.

In reply to Re^3: UTF in Perl by moritz
in thread UTF in Perl by KarthikK

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