use Encode qw( decode encode ); use LWP::Simple qw( get ); my $URL = ...; my $web_enc = 'UTF-8'; my $out_enc = 'iso-latin-1'; my $web_octets = get($URL); my $chars = decode($web_enc, $web_octets); my $out_octets = encode($out_enc, $chars); print($out_octets);