# New Ticket Created by rajaraman viswanathan # Please include the string: [perl #24041] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24041 > hello there, we are trying to display german characters using a perl program. we have used lc_ctype = ISO-8859-1. The perl program reads from UTF-8 database and produces XML files.In the XML files ,i could see "?" which means that iam not getting proper german characters. can you please tell me why this is happening?? is there anything we need to make sure before running this? ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com