Hello monks.

Today I uploaded my perl program to my server. My local perl is 5.12.2 and server'perl is 5.8.8. And I met strange problem. LWP::Simple'get() function gives me decoded utf8 characters with my 5.12.2 local machine. But 5.8.8 machine gives me not decoded utf8 bytes. Each version of LWP::Simple is 5.835(local) and 5.810(server).

In get() function, LWP::Simple calls HTTP::Response's "decoded_content" method. Document of CPAN says

"This will return the content after any Content-Encoding and charsets have been decoded."

I guess there was some change for HTTP::Response's decoded _content. Does anyone met the same situation? Maybe, 

$html=utf8::is_utf8($html) ? $html : decode('utf8', $html);

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will solve my problem, but I would like to hear from monk's opinion.

regards.( I am sorry for my poor english)

In reply to LWP::Simple is it get decoded or not ? by remiah

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