#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Encode; my $perl_str = "αινσϊρό"; print "IN UTF:$perl_str\n"; my $iso_str = encode("iso-8859-1", $perl_str); print "IN ISO:$iso_str\n"; my $utf_str = decode("iso-8859-1", $iso_str); print "BACK IN UTF:$utf_str\n";