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At least in your second example, you are not properly decoding your input.
I don't see what should be wrong? I did the same like in my first example, just turned the utf8 into iso-8859-1 on decode and file-open.

Your idea using the loop would be my second step. Just now I'm worried because ANSI to UTF8 doesn't work properly.

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Re^3: convert files to ansi (8859-1)
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 29, 2017 at 08:17 UTC

    You cannot read octets from a file and then hope that Perl will know that you meant UTF-8. You always have to decode your input and encode your output.

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      Maybe we talk past each other?

      My utf8 to iso-8859-1 should do the following:
      - read file into scalar
      - eval decode utf8
      -- if we get an error, then i simply say it's iso-8859-1 and I don't do anything
      -- it we get no error, then i use the decoded string

      On the other script iso-8859-1 to utf8, I wanna go the same way:
      - read file into scalar
      - eval decode iso-8859-1
      -- if we get an error, then i simply say it's utf8 and I don't do anything
      -- it we get no error, then i use the decoded string

      Now I expect we get an eval decode iso-8859-1 error if the input file is utf8, but I don't.
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        -- if we get an error, then i simply say it's utf8 and I don't do anything

        That's wrong.

        If your input is bytes that are a valid UTF-8 sequence, you still need to call decode on it to have usable strings in Perl.

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