FW: Utf8 encoding

Hello,
        Please ignore my previous mail. I found out that previously when I had 
edited this file, I had not written back in utf8 encoded format, but just using 
toString module.
        Gotcha!!

-Shashi

> ______________________________________________ 
> From:         Vajramatti Shashidhar (DS/EES1)  
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:03 PM
> To:   'perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org'
> Subject:      Utf8 encoding
>
> Hello,
>       I am parsing an xml file using libxml2. The xml file has umlauts(german 
> keys ü/ö/ä etc) , °(degree) atc as the characters.
>       Could someone tell me how to encode such an xml to utf8? 
>
>       I get the below error:
>       "parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !"
>
>       Below is the snippet of code that I used.
>
>       my $parser = "";
>       my $doc = "";
>
>       $parser = XML::LibXML->new();#  
>       $doc = $parser->parse_file( $x_file );
>
>       I tried to encode using "setEncoding" but no results.
>
> -Shashi