There seems to be a bug in LWP which causes a warning in HTML::HeadParser on fetched web documents which contain utf-8 encoded data in the header section.
Example: use strict; use LWP; use 5.008; my $url = 'http://perlmeister.com/test/utf8.html'; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $res = $ua->get($url); This snippet shows the warning Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /home/y/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/LWP/Protocol.pm line 114. with LWP-5.805 and HTML-Parser-3.55. HTML::HeadParser issues this warning if it finds UTF-8 encoded data but the string handed in doesn't have the utf-8 bit set. Setting the utf-8 bit on web server responses which indicate UTF-8 content in a content header like 'text/html; charset=utf-8' seems to be one possible solution, but this header setting might also occur in the HTML header section, which HTML::HeadParser is supposed to parse: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> in which case the warning probably needs to be suppressed until HTML::HeadParser is done and has verified that there's no such setting in the HTML head. -- Mike Mike Schilli [EMAIL PROTECTED]