Re^2: Problem upgrading XML::Fast from 0.11 to 0.17

Hi,

It is the parser's job to handle decoding.

To do so, the parser needs to know the encoding of the XML.

The XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>) does provide that information for the parser.

$xml =~ s/^(?:.*\n)//; # remove first line - the encoding line

By removing the XML declaration the Parser ~~seems to guess the (wrong) source encoding.~~ uses the default encoding.*

With XML declaration your code seems to work correctly. Please notice that XML::Fast upgrades the data to utf8. But now in the correct manner.

*updated

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Re^3: Problem upgrading XML::Fast from 0.11 to 0.17 by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 23, 2017 at 04:02 UTC
By removing the XML declaration the Parser seems to guess the (wrong) source encoding. There's no guessing involved. If there's no encoding specified, then it must be UTF-8 to be valid XML.	[reply]
Re^4: Problem upgrading XML::Fast from 0.11 to 0.17 by ablanke (Monsignor) on Sep 23, 2017 at 09:52 UTC
Thank you ikegami, i should RTFM! https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp	[reply]
Re^3: Problem upgrading XML::Fast from 0.11 to 0.17 by mje (Curate) on Sep 25, 2017 at 11:55 UTC
See my reply to ikegami. I was opening the file with ISO-8859-1 and removing the XML encoding line because of previous bugs in XML::Fast.	[reply]