Re: confused about utf-8, and perl.

Enrico, If you suspect that $xml_text is in latin1, maybe you could confirm this by running it through Encode::Guess and then encoding it to utf8: http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Encode-2.42/lib/Encode/Guess.pm Mark - Original Message - > I don't understand what I am doing wrong, but

Re: confused about utf-8, and perl.

Whoops, Sorry to rick for the double-post, but realized I didn't send my answers to the list directly... > perl 5.10.0 -- > linux/ ubuntu 2.6.31-19-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP Ok, that should have some nice unicode options and should be using unicode internally. > however, when I use: LWP, and

confused about utf-8, and perl.

I don't understand what I am doing wrong, but i must be misusing either MARC::Record, or perl's utf-8 support: I fetch an xml record from oclc worldcat, and turn it into a MARC::Record, then output it as perl 5.10.0 -- linux/ ubuntu 2.6.31-19-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP I'm using the world cat a