Hello Jim.

I wonder this is your intentional emulation or, in case you don't notice...
The second decode is really strange. I would like to use terms, "internal char" and "bytes".
Second decode expects Windows-1252 bytes but it receives UTF-8 bytes.

$ldqm=encode('UTF-8',                 #internal char to utf-8 bytes
    decode('Windows-1252',          #This expects Windows-1252 bytes b
+ut utf-8 bytes passed from outer encode
        encode('UTF-8',$ldgm)));  #here internal char to UTF-8bytes

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So, how about using from_to, bytes to bytes conversion?
my $buff=encode('UTF-8',$ldgm);                #internal char to utf-8
+ bytes
from_to($buff, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252');         #now buff converted i
+nto 1252 bytes
$buff=decode('Windows-1252', $buff);            #1252 bytes converted 
+into internal char
print 'ret=' . encode('UTF-8', $buff);            #encode into UTF8 by
+tes and print

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regards

In reply to Re: Why does Encode::Repair only correctly fix one of these two tandem characters? by remiah
in thread Why does Encode::Repair only correctly fix one of these two tandem characters? by Jim

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