Hello Monks,

I am processing some XHTML pages (using XML::Twig) that contain numerous character entities, such as:

é

When I parse these files using XML::Twig, they turn into all sorts of wonky characters that look nothing like they did in the original HTML.

réserve
becomes 
réserve

I've tried setting keep_encoding in Twig, and the entities get preserved, but I get another set of wonky characters when that output goes to HTML.

I'm not sure how to proceed here -- any thoughts? I'm sure there's some kind of encoding/decoding process I need to do here, but I'm unfamiliar with the process.

Many thanks.

Scott

In reply to Encoding/decoding question by slugger415

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