Re: Handling £ (pound sterling) symbo ls in content
mirod <[email protected]>
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Neil Hughes wrote: > I've hit a problem in XML::Twig trying to handle data exported from a > legacy database, but I suspect this is an issue I need to get some > advice on regardless of the parser... > > The data contains '£' symbols which I'm struggling to format in XML for > processing later on. The following code might help explain: I suspect your data is not in utf-8 (or utf-16). If the pound sign is encoded in latin1 (or a windows encoding), then the XML is not well-formed. You can check that by doing for example iconv -f utf8 -t utf8 myfile.xml If that fails, then add an XML declaration with the proper encoding at the top of the file or convert it to utf8 (using iconv again). Does that help? -- mirod _______________________________________________ Perl-XML mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs