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Hi All,
Can anyone explain why this fails on perl 5.8.3? I tried various utf8 tricks, but I can't get it to work...
Thanks.
Zak
Update: johnnywang++ and borisz++. Write file out as utf8, but read in a file using XML::Simple's XMLin interface!

use XML::Simple qw(:strict);
use Encode;
# use open 'utf8'; # Can't get this to work - should open all files as
+ utf8...
use Data::Dumper;

my $val;
$val->{utfchar} = "\x{10a0}";

my $xml = XMLout($val,KeyAttr=>{item=>'name});
open (OUT,">out.xml");
  print OUT $xml;
close OUT;

# Yes, I could use a different slurp funciton...
my $readin="";
open (IN,"<out.xml");
while (<IN>){
  $readin = $readin . $_;
}
close IN;
my $result = XMLin($readin,KeyAttr=>{item=>'name'},ForceArray=>1);

if ($result->{utfchar} eq "\x{10a0}"){
  print "Wohoo!\n";
}
else {
  print "Doh!\n";
}
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