I am using XML::Simple to parse an XML string. The string is loaded from a signed UTF-8 file. When I call the XMLin($string) method to parse the document, I get this error:

Wide character in print at C:\Texts\Programs/SIFX.pm line 42.

Then Data::Dumper doesn't dump anything. It seems that it all just stops with that error. When I print the string, it looks just fine. The only non-ansi character I can find in it is this dash: —, which appears several times.

One of the containing lines is:

<LEX st="Kasulatan" id="tl" chrBrk="—" tSt="s11"/>

It really bugs me because this snippet works fine: 

my $blah = $xml->XMLin('<LEX st="Kasulatan" id="tl" chrBrk="—" tSt="s1
+1"/>');

print Dumper($blah);

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but it doesn't work when it is loaded from a file.

In reply to XML::Simple throws decode error in encode.pm by Anonymous Monk

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