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           Summary: perl XML::Parser (and in effect XML::Parser::Expat)
                    does not return UTF-8 strings as expected.
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.3
           Version: Final
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Development
        AssignedTo: pth@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: DOlsson@xxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


Created an attachment (id=398363)
 --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=398363)
Small Perl program using XML::Parser to illustrate the problem reported.

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When using the Perl module "XML::Parser" to parse a valid UTF-8 XML text
containing e.g. German umlauts, these are *not* returned as UTF-8 characters,
but as Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) characters!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Write a Perl program using the XML::Parser module -- see attachment for small
test program to illustrate problem.
Actual Results:  
The UTF-8 characters "öäüÖÄÜß" are returned as Latin-1 characters "�������".

Expected Results:  
Expected to get the actual characters from read input, i.e. "öäüÖÄÜß".

Download attachment, make it executable and run it "./xmlParserBug".

Requires the "perl-XML-Parser" package to be installed.

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