I'm not sure if the age of the module might be a problem?

Amazon versions its APIs, so that changes to the API are only effective if you specify a new API version in the request.

So new features in the API will not be available, but neither will anything break until amazon decides to deprecate the API version supported by Net::Amazon.

. But I'm getting the price back with a currency symbol that should have been a £ (I use the 'UK' locale for the Net::Amazon request) - instead I'm getting something like "�5.99". What am I doing wrong or what do I need to do to convert that correctly?

Net::Amazon returns decoded strings, so you need to encode them (in the encoding that your console expects) before printing. This can either be done with Encode (core module) or something like: 

binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';

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(Assuming that UTF-8 is what your terminal supports).

See also: Unicode and Encodings with Perl.

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In reply to Re: Amazon API wrappers by moritz
in thread Amazon API wrappers by tospo

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