I'm using WWW::Mechanize (v1.54) to log into a site and extract some data from there. At some pages, I'm getting the "Wide character in print" warning message when saving using $mech->save_content().

I noticed that those pages have explicit charset defined twice and do not match:
Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
in the HTTP response header, and
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
inside the html page.

Doing a trace, $mech->content_type() returns "text/html" and $mech->response()->encoding() returns "iso-8859-1".

It seems that WWW::Mechanize has to check not only the content type for the binmode but also the encoding in save_content() method (and probably more methods), or maybe HTTP::Response is not doing it's work?

Or am I missing something?

In reply to Explicit charset confuses WWW::Mechanize and/or HTTP::Response by vitoco

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