Greetings,

Looks you did not test...

c:\temp>perl -e"s/\357/<li>/g&&print $_ while(<>)" funny.txt
<li><li><li>
c:\temp>perl -e"s/\0357/<li>/g&&print $_ while(<>)" funny.txt
c:\temp>
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funny.txt contains 3 samples of the offending character.
Cheers,
alf

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