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[David Dorward]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:26:49PM +0000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Thirdly, Feedvalidator also says (perhaps spuriously) that the HTTP
> header should have the character encoding in it. There appears to be no
> way to turn this off in CGI.pm. Again, suggestions welcome although I'm 
> not too worried about this one.

XML and character encoding is a bit of a mess. Specifying it in the
HTTP header is the best way to go.

print $cgi->header(-type => 'application/x.atom+xml; charset=utf-8');

Should do the trick (assuming you are using UTF-8).

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk