It sounds like HTML::TreeBuilder isn't dealing with the utf-8 encoding right. However, I think there's an easy solution, hinted at by HTML::Treebuilder and open.

HTML::Treebuilder: 

$root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new()
$root->parse_file(...)

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An important method inherited from HTML::Parser, which see. Current versions of HTML::Parser can take a filespec, or a filehandle object, like *FOO, or some object from class IO::Handle, IO::File, IO::Socket) or the like. I think you should check that a given file exists before calling $root->parse_file($filespec).
Ok, so it accepts file handles? Good...

open:

   open(my $fh, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", "filename")
     || die "can't open UTF-8 encoded filename: $!";

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Ok, so we can specify which encoding to use when we open a file? Hmm!

So here's what I'd try. open my $fh, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", $yourOriginalFileName; my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new; $tree->parse_file($fh); </c> Untested though, but hopefully it helps.

Edit:: made a weird mistake in my code (as well as in the links). Fixed. I hope.

In reply to Re: transforming html by muba
in thread transforming html by morgon

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