Re^2: XML encoding problem

I am not sure what I will do, but this gave me something to work with.
I created a small sub that converts the XML string to latin1 (which is the same as iso-8859-1??? or...)

use Unicode::String qw(utf8 latin1);

sub utf8_to_latin1 {
  # get arguments
  my ($s1) = @_;
    
  # create a utf8 string with initial value of s1
  # strange! it should already be in utf8
  my $utf8 = Unicode::String->new( $s1 );
    
  # convert to latin1
  my $s2 = Unicode::String::latin1($utf8);
    
  return $s2;
}
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but I don't understand why I have to create a new utf8 string, when the XML string should already be in utf8?

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Re^3: XML encoding problem by wazoox (Prior) on Mar 15, 2006 at 11:17 UTC
You're simply creating an object, you don't actually need it to pass the string to it. Use `Unicode::String->stringify_as('latin1');` instead, see Unicode::String documentation : $us = Unicode::String->new( $initial_value ) (...) In general it is recommended to import and use one of the encoding specific constructor functions instead of invoking this method.	[reply] [d/l]