Well I found a bit of a solution, thanks to that reply by Christophe.
In the end I found no way to prevent perl+libwww+mechanize from using
unicode, and to use locale of iso-8859-15. So i just went with the
unicode flow and did
my $euro = "\x{20AC}";
if ($agent->content =~ /$euro/)
I never figured out why the posix locale stuff wasnt working so i have no
idea if its a libwww issue or a perl 5.8.0 issue or a user error issue...
sorry to have bugged the list with a problem that may or may not be
strictly related to libwww as i thought at first!
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gedanken
