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my $buff=encode('UTF-8',$ldgm); #internal char to utf-8
+ bytes
from_to($buff, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252'); #now buff converted i
+nto 1252 bytes
$buff=decode('Windows-1252', $buff); #1252 bytes converted
+into internal char
print 'ret=' . encode('UTF-8', $buff); #encode into UTF8 by
+tes and print