On 5/7/02 11:06 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > The workaround I used is to write the handler like this : > > sub xml_char > { > my ($expat) = @_; > $buffer .= $expat->original_string; > } > > Reading the original string, no need to convert UTF-8 back to iso-8859-1.
Doh! I dunno why I didn't think of that, since I've used that expat method plenty of times before. This seems safer than forcing a conversion from UTF-8 to something else (although the other technique is nice to know too :) -John