title: How can I encode a Perl string so I can put it into an XML document?
body: <p>I'm not too fluent with the perl XML libraries (actually, I really suck at understanding encoding in general), all I'm doing is taking a string that possibly has characters such as "à" and putting it in an XML file, but when I open the file, I get an encoding error at the line containing such a character.</p>
  
  <p>So I just need a lightweight way to take a string and encode it for XML.</p>