Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character

[moritz]

It seems you don't really understand character encodings. Try reading this article get the basics.

The line use utf8; tells Perl that your script is stored in UTF-8, but it is not. Your editor did not save it as UTF-8, but rather as another encoding, likely Latin-1.

So either don't tell Perl that the file is stored in UTF-8 when it is not, or do store the file in UTF-8 (and use an editor which properly supports UTF-8).

[Steve_BZ]

Hi Moritz,

I think you're right. I didn't understand, although I'm already following much of the advice in the your article.

Interestingly, I was already using utf-8 encoding in all my files except this one. I so rarely have to do anything to the filesave default, that I forgot they were there. In fact both the fixes suggested here worked (correcting the file encoding and inserting  in front of the degrees sign).

Thanks for everything

Regards

Steve