character Encoding in perl

[Prabu Ayyappan]

Hi,
   
  I am using XML::Simple for converting the XML into a hash.
   
  use Unicode::String qw(utf8);
use XML::Simple;
#use Data::Dumper;
$XML = "<START>äT©imes</START>";
$u = utf8($XML);
$XML = $u->utf8;
$myHash  = XMLin($XML);
#print Dumper($myHash);
   
  The above code works fine...
   
  But the problem is when i used the Input string as
   
  <START>äT©imes</START>
   
  There is a  character which makes the parser to threw an error.
   
  not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 12, byte 12 at 
D:/Perl/lib/XML
/Parser.pm line 187
   
  How to encode these characters().I found this character as an utf-8 
character from the below link
   
  http://www.tony-franks.co.uk/UTF-8.htm
   
  if it is something other than UTF-8 then how to encode it.
   
   
   
  Thanks in advance,
  Prabu.M.A

 
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