utf8 does not map to Unicode error when trying to grab a page

corpx has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Fatal Error in C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/HTTP/Message.pm at Thu Jul 
+16 16:49:33 2009
while responding to request from 
Bad file descriptor

utf8 "\x94" does not map to Unicode at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/Encode.p
+m line 162.
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I get that error when I try to grab a url in my windows box. On my ubuntu box, I get

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Fatal Error in /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/HTTP/Message.pm at Thu Jul
+ 16 16:22:37 2009
while responding to request from 


utf8 "\x94" does not map to Unicode at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Encode.pm li
+ne 162.
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However, when I upload the code to my web host (debian box), it runs fine. What am I doing wrong on my local boxes?

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Re: utf8 does not map to Unicode error when trying to grab a page by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 16, 2009 at 22:51 UTC
Maybe your locales are different on the two machines? I sometimes found that perl behaves oddly in non-UTF8 locales, though I don't know exactly what's different. Of course there are other possibilities, like a bug in one of the modules in one of the setups, but you don't tell us enough about your environment to warrant a guess.	[reply]