Thanks for your complimentary remarks — they are appreciated.

piconv does use Encode. It's also relatively short: if you ignore the option handling, POD, etc., you're left with probably less than 100 lines of code. So, if you wanted to use that as a starting point to roll your own version, I don't imagine it would be an overwhelmingly difficult task. However, having said that, if this is just a one-off exercise, perhaps something along these lines would suffice: 

$ for i in latin/*.html; do
> piconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 $i | \
> perl -pe 's/((?>charset|encoding)=)iso-8859-1/${1}utf-8/gi' - \
> > utf8/`basename $i`
> done

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-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: Why won't Perl convert (Latin1 | ISO-8859-1) to (UTF-8 | utf8)? by kcott
in thread Why won't Perl convert (Latin1 | ISO-8859-1) to (UTF-8 | utf8)? by taint

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