in reply to UTF-8
Anonymous,
It might make more sense to use iconv, a command created to do exactly what you want. Likely, simply invoking it at your shell will accomplish what you need, after setting the proper parameters.
Text::Iconv would let you access that functionality from Perl.
Take a look here and see if this tool does what you need. If you need further help, please update your question with more details and/or code you've tried.
Best regards
-lem, but some call me fokat
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