275377 - importxml.pl needs to use utf8

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126266

(Bugzilla :: Bug Import/Export & Moving, defect)

Description

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

When attempting to use importxml.pl, I got an error:

importxml.pl: Can't locate object method "SWASHNEW" via package "utf8" (perhaps
you forgot to load "utf8"?) at ./importxml.pl line 418, <XML> line 16193.

I resolved this by adding a statement:

use utf8;

near the other "use" lines although I'm not sure this is the correct way to fix
this properly.

I am using perl 5.6.1 on clean install of debian 3.0 and no perl packages have
been updated from the OS distribution except those I had to update due to
warnings in checksetup.pl.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126266 ***