I remember XML::LibXML doing funky things with the utf8 flag -- but in
your case,
is it possible to try using a proper XML declaration?
i.e.:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><p>Tomas ....</p>
This seems to produce the correct output for me (perl 5.12.1, LibXML 1.70)
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2010/6/16 David E. Wheeler <david(_at_)kineticode(_dot_)com>:
Fellow Perlers,
I'm parsing a lot of XML these days, and came upon a a Yahoo! Pipes feed that
appears to mangle an originating Flickr feed. But the curious thing is, when
I pull the offending string out of the RSS and just stick it in a script,
Encode knows how to decode it properly, while XML::LibXML (and my
Unicode-aware editors) cannot.
The attached script demonstrates. $str has the bogus-looking character".
Encode, however, seems to properly convert it to the "č" in "Laurinavičius"
in the output. XML::LibXML, OTOH, outputs it as "LaurinaviÄ ius" -- that is,
broken. (If things look truly borked in this email too, please look at the
attached script.)
So my question is, what gives? Is this truly a broken representation of the
character and Encode just figures that out and fixes it? Or is there
something off with my editor and with XML::LibXML.
FWIW, the character looks correct in my editor when I load it from the
original Flickr feed. It's only after processing by Yahoo! Pipes that it
comes out looking mangled.
Any insights would be appreciated.
Best,
David
