Thanks Moritz!
XML::Smart and XML::SMART both works! no idea how! this is the same module you had referred.
I am completely lost here :-(
Basically this is what i get:

1. I get a XML which is un utf8 format. IT will have all sorts of special characters but utf8 encoded.
2. I will have to get these values convert them back to windows-1256 or 1252-MS Windows Latin 1 so that the users see the text properly
3. I have to export the same back as XML from database in utf8 format.
Currently i use the UTF8Simple which is buggy :-(
Somehow this "use encoding" too dosent seem to work!

In reply to Re^4: UTF in Perl by KarthikK
in thread UTF in Perl by KarthikK

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