use LWP::UserAgent qw( );

my $URL     = ...;
my $out_enc = 'iso-latin-1';

# Saves us from encoding chars sent to STDOUT.
binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding($out_enc)");

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $ua->get($URL);
my $chars    = $response->decoded_content(default_charset => 'UTF-8');
print($chars);