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    use Encode;
use DBI;  # (or whatever you use for your PostgreSQL)
...
my $latin1str = encode( 'iso-8859-1', $unistr );

print $latin1str;
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    # snippet to convert utf8 to latin1 -- NB: only works for utf8
# characters that correlate to unicode \x{0000} - \x{00ff}
...
}

# now $_ holds latin1 (single-byte, iso-8859-1) characters