Dear Monks,

I'm just a bit confused by the behaving of the XML::Parser. I have an UTF-8 encoded string in $xml (Müller in the (P)CDATA section) and I like to get it in UTF-8 on the output. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use XML::Parser;
$xml = "<word>Müller</word>";

$ch = sub {
    my ($p, $w) = @_;
    print "$w\n";
};

# the next commented 2 lines mean the same
# and translate the output to iso-8859-1
# $p = XML::Parser->new();
# $p = XML::Parser->new(ProtocolEncoding => 'UTF-8');

# this line do the right job, but why??
$p = XML::Parser->new(ProtocolEncoding => 'ISO-8859-1');

$p->setHandlers('Char' => $ch);
$p->parse($xml);

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Please let me understand why I need to set ProtocolEncoding to 'ISO-8859-1' to get the UTF-8 encoded data as UTF-8 and not as iso-8859-1. Also let me know if this will first translate the data to iso-8859-1 and then back to UTF-8.

Disclaimer: It's not my decision to use XML::Parser, even if i like/dislike it. It's used by an module and it's out of discussion if this or that xml parser is better or not.

thank you so much & hear my prayer

In reply to UTF-8 and XML::Parser by Anonymous Monk

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