Hiho,

I've a problem with XML::Simple. After parsing XML i got back wrong language sings. It seems the uft8 will not converted into latin1 .. 

eg. MySQL für Dummies
    -------^^

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This sign must be ü

I tried to use a code snippet like this (found here on perlmonks): 

sub encode { # UTF-8 to latin1 regex from XML::TiePYX (thanks to mirod
+)
my($text) = @_;
$text =~ s{([\xc0-\xc3])(.)}{
  my $hi = ord($1);
  my $lo = ord($2);
  chr((($hi & 0x03) <<6) | ($lo & 0x3F))
 }ge;
return $text;
}

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This works on the local machine (win XP) but not on the real server with linux.

Do you have any Ideas or other solutions for this topic?

thx a lot Rufnex

In reply to XML::Simple and UTF8 by Rufnex

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