getting non ascii characters in html

[angelblade27]

i'm using web mechanize to submit messages to a board and then looking at the submitted page to see if it contains the text the caption i'm looking for is <'Hérrœ & e Paßwört´s'>-thursday
i'm gettin the -thursday but not the first part in the $mechanzie->content()

 

[KevinADC]

OK, thank you for sharing that with us. Did you have a question?

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[angelblade27]

yeah does the mechanize not support non ascii characters?

 

[KevinADC]

the content() method fetches the raw html from the page. How are you examining the content the method returns?

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[angelblade27]

I'm using a regex to get the data between two tags ( where the text should be). THen passing it through a htmlarser method which converts the html encoding eg &amp; in to the actual meaning.
if ($caption) {
my ($caption_src) = $mech->content() =~ m|<span\ id="imageCaption">(.*?)</span>|si;
$test->is_eq( $self->decode_source_text($caption_src), $caption, "Image caption matches?" );
}
i printed the caption_src before and have the decode_source() but am still not seeing the non ascii chars. just the day part

 

[KevinADC]

OK, maybe someone else can help, I don't know what the problem could be.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!