Surely I'm not the only one that's had to overcome something like this.

No you aren't :) I've been there, there is no canned solution :) disable warnings: utf8 "\x8E" does not map to Unicode ( NOTE: malformed corrupted double encoded Encoding::FixLatin / fix_latin / Encode::DoubleEncodedUTF8 / Encode::Repair / Encode::Detective / Encode::Guess , unicode chcp cp1252 windows-1252 cp437 iso-8859-1 )

I did spend quite some time trying to find a solution reading all the perldoc's.

There wouldn't be a solution -- maybe if its been corrupted once, but more than once and you've got junk with no way back

Fixing broken character encoding
gibberish detection
Encode::Detective - detect a data encoding
Encoding::FixLatin - takes mixed encoding input and produces UTF-8 output
Encode::DoubleEncodedUTF8 - Fix double encoded UTF-8 bytes to the correct one
Encode::Repair - Repair wrongly encoded text strings

In reply to Re: Can Perl convert ISO-? | WIN-? | MAC-? to UTF-8? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Can Perl convert ISO-? | WIN-? | MAC-? to UTF-8? by taint

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