A script I wrote crashed with the following error: Wide character in send at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/IO/Socket.pm ine 218. The wide character in question was — which was from slashdot's rss feed. rss was being retrieved with XML::RSS::Feed The script was running in perl 5.8.8 I don't know what other details you need. sfullenwiderThread Next