I've discovered another problem with UTF8 that I don't understand. I'm still using Perl 5.8 (sorry, my ISP still hasn't upgraded). I'm basically just using LWP::Simple to read in some UTF8, process it and then output it. But it's coming out as gobbledegook again.

Here is the minimal code that I can reproduce the problem with:

#!/usr/bin/perl -CS
use LWP::Simple;
print get(...);

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I'm using http://feeds.feedburner.com/breakingtravelnews as the source of UTF8 data.

If I don't use -CS, it works fine, but then this breaks other things in the code that need these switches.

I could understand the problem if I was just using -CI or -CO, instead of -CS (ie. both input and output). How does inputting UTF8 then outputting it straight away AS UTF8, not work?

Cheers

MattLG

In reply to UTF8 and LWP::Simple; by MattLG

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