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in thread UTF8 fun and games again

Hi,

I can't post that code, as its all over the place (part of the API for the database in the script I'm using). I know that code works fine normally, as I've used UTF8 charachters loads). The problem has to be something to do with this code.
If I do: 
my $string = Do_Translate("en","fr",'are you');
 
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($string,'êtes-vous');

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I see: 

$VAR1 = 'êtes-vous';
$VAR2 = "\x{ad25}s-vous";

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Argh its driving me up the wall!

BTW, here is the actual JSON data thats getting passed back: 

                      'translations' => [
                                          {
                                            'translatedText' => "\x{c3
+}\x{aa}tes-vous"
                                          }
                                        ]

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Re^5: UTF8 fun and games again
by ultranerds (Hermit) on Oct 17, 2011 at 18:37 UTC
    Ok, for anyone interested - its cos the JSON module needed to explicitly use the utf8 functions JSON->new->utf8 , and then also decode(). I've changed it to this, and it works perfectly now <G> 
    sub Do_Translate {

    my ($from,$to,$string) = @_;
    
    my $url = "https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=$k
+ey&q=$string&source=$from&target=$to";
    
#    print "getting URL: $url \n";
    
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    
    my $body = $ua->get($url);
    my $json        = JSON->new->utf8;
    my $value = $json->decode( $body->decoded_content );
    
    print "GOT: $value->{data}->{translations}[0]->{translatedText} \n
+";

    return utf8($value->{data}->{translations}[0]->{translatedText})->
+latin1; 
    
}

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      Thanks for sharing your solution!

      Anne

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