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in reply to Re: XML::Simple parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding
in thread XML::Simple parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding

I solved the problem by replacing non-printable characters to nil, before writing to XML file. My regular expression is as follows.
# following is a code to remove non-printable characters in string i +ncluding newline s/[^[:print:]]+//g; # this pattern won't remove newline char s/([\x00-\x09]+)|([\x0B-\x1F]+)//g;