foreach my $node (@$nodes) {
        $node->{cdata} = UTF8_latin1($node->{cdata}); # ADDED
        my $link = $q->a({-href => "$url_base$node->{node_id}"}, $node->{cdata});
        my $node_text = $q->li($link);
        my $author = $authors->{$node->{author_user}};
        $author = UTF8_latin1($author); # ADDED
        $node_text .= (' ' x 2) . $q->small(" by $author") if $SHOW_AUTHOR;
        print $node_text;
}