From: Gregory Machin <g...@linuxpro.co.za> > I'm debugging an application written in Perl that converse data exported > from the Nessus security scanner in xml format. I have narrowed down the > bug to an issue with special characters in names that are in the file such > as Fr~A©d~A©ric and Gr~A©goire , thus ~A© are most likely the guilty parties. > > What is the best and most simple way to handle this ? From a quick google > it looks like I should convert the file to UTF8 format , would this be > correct ? > > Thanks > > Greg
Looks like the data already is utf8, but the header of the XML specifies otherwise. How do you parse the data? Can you give us a short example file? Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/