Greetings Monksters,
I've been struggling for some time attempting to convert ISO-8859-1 web pages (html files) to utf8 encoded html files.
I've tried iconv(1), which failed. So I tried piconv(1), which also failed
It's not that either can't accomplish the task -- it's that they refuse to perform the task.
Example; I have some ~1,000 .html files I want to convert from Latin1 => utf8: 
#!/bin/sh -
# 2utf8 (via iconv(1)

for i in *.html;
do
    iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 $i > $i.tmp
    rm $i
    mv $i.tmp $i
done

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The resulting files remain ISO-8859-1. This time with piconv(1): 
#!/bin/sh -
# 2utf8 (via Piconv(1)

for i in *.html;
do
    piconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 $i > $i.tmp
    rm $i
    mv $i.tmp $i
done

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Again, the resultant files remain ISO-8859-1 (Latin1).
All of these files contain the following line within the <head> tags: 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+">

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Strangley, if I change that line to: 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

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and perform: 
piconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 index.html > index.htm

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The resultant file will be utf8 encoded.
Is this a bug in Perl?

Any, and all help with this greatly appreciated.

Thank you for all your time, and consideration.

--chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.4";
print $perl_version;

In reply to Why won't Perl convert (Latin1 | ISO-8859-1) to (UTF-8 | utf8)? by taint

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