Problems with XML encoding in perl xml Lib

Question

Replacing the Special Character using Perl while i am doing this . I got this error . I just try to merging the 2 xml file using XML::Lib.

parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xA3 0x32 0x33 0x6B �23 to c�27 .

What is the issue and how to resolve this this

• I thought before going to XML Parser , I will replace those special character . But i am not aware of how to acheive this in perl ? or is there any way to turn off this error and complete to merging with properl format

• i used th recover_silently ( XML LIb parser ), its removed all tags after the issue happened

Answer 1

Your input file isn't encoded in UTF-8. Convert it to UTF-8 before usage, see for instance this excellent article.

Answer 2

Some links that may be of interest (found by searching):

• http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=610066
• http://bytes.com/groups/perl/50726-libxml-utf8-input-not-proper-utf-8-indicate-encoding

Answer 3

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

I have just added this into to the XML File . Then works fine