use Encode qw( decode ); my $url = "http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/courses/npfl067/TEXTCZ1.txt"; my $content = decode('iso-8859-2', get($url)); #### { open my $FH, ">:encoding(iso-8859-2)", 'file_iso-8859-2.txt' or die "$!\n"; print $FH $content; } { open my $FH, ">:encoding(utf-8)", 'file_utf-8.txt' or die "$!\n"; print $FH $content; }