Re: XML::Simple parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding

XML is not a container format for just any data. You can only put certain characters in it!

I assume that in your weird notation

        <CALLERID><A0>jW<B7>h<AE><F5><BF><8A>7a<B7><D8>T<D9>^N</CALLER
+ID>
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A0 etc in angles is equivalent to \xA0 in Perl, and ^N is equivalent to \cN in Perl. That last character (chr(14) == #x0E == U+000E) is illegal in XML.

You must encode binary data for XML, Base64 is a common choice.

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Re^2: XML::Simple parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding by nvivek (Vicar) on Aug 17, 2012 at 05:31 UTC
I solved the problem by replacing non-printable characters to nil, before writing to XML file. My regular expression is as follows. `# following is a code to remove non-printable characters in string i +ncluding newline s/[^[:print:]]+//g; # this pattern won't remove newline char s/([\x00-\x09]+)\|([\x0B-\x1F]+)//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]