Hi there. Im facing a encoding issue that i dont know how fix it. Im reading records from a file and reading a file. try to match the think i read from the file, to one of the records i had readed from the file, if found, it use a code assigned an write to the file. When i read the data to be loaded in a hash with his code and get ready to be compared against the data extracted from the files, ir read the data right. I use a subrroutine to convert every quote or accent to the same letter without this special character. 
sub translator {                                                      
+               
      $vNombre = $_[0];
        $vNombre = lc $vNombre;
        $vNombre =~ tr/áàèéìíòóùú/aaeeiioouu/;
        $vNombre =~ tr/ÀÁÈÉÌÍÒÓÙÚ/AAEEIIOOUU/;
        $vNombre =~ tr/"'/||/d;
        return $vNombre;

  }

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But, when i read the xml has a plain text (using a While <FILEHANDLE>), i sent the data to the subrroutine to format it, using that condition: 
if ($vl_read =~ /<hwAssetUserField3 type="attrib">(.+?)<\/hwAssetUserF
+ield3>/){
                          $vNombre = $1;
                          $vNombre = &translator($vNombre);

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But when i print the data, it seems it takes the accent, quotes and so on, not as a ó or á letter, or a "" or '', its use weird characters. 
&apos;galicia vii&apos; 
it should be "galicia vii"

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or at last, it should detect " in the tr and change it to another character of (see the /d option), eliminate, but no. Also, if it reads a accent vowel, it reads, for example: 
centro de apoyo inform&#9500;ítico when it should read centro de apoyo
+ informatico.

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Im using a spanish computer, but it seems perl its reading in a wrong way from the xml file but not from a txt file. Any idea???? Thanks!

In reply to Problem with quotes, speciao characters and so on, reading a xml file by Sombrerero_loco

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