in reply to How to get latin-1 out of a utf-8 string (5.6.1)?

Try using Text::Iconv instead of Unicode::map8. Actually if iconv is installed on your machine you can even use it separately: iconv -f UTF8 -t LATIN1 <file>

use Text::Iconv;
$converter = Text::Iconv->new("UTF8", "LATIN1");
$converted = $converter->convert( $utf8_string);

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