Looks like this is pretty much the solution for me too...

I'm running my files through this: 

while (<>) {
    s/\xc3\xa5/å/g;
    s/\xc3\xb8/ø/g;
    s/\xc3\xa6/æ/g;
    s/\xc3\xa9/é/g;
    s/\xc3\x85/Å/g;
    s/\xc3\x86/Æ/g;
    s/\xc3\x98/Ø/g;
    s/\xc3\x96/Ö/g;
    print;
}

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I have been able to get a hexdump of the files, but I really don't understand what I read, because it looks as there are other characters inserted between those hex characters, e.g.: 

 6469 c320 7396 6c74

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c3 is the à and 96 is indeed not in Latin1.... I think the latter probably has something to do with the question marks I got.

Why this is so, or if it is significant is beyond me, and unfortunately, the pressure on me is such I won't have time to find out (hate that). But it works reasonably well.

In reply to Re: Re: Encoding of DBI PostgreSQL output by Kjetil
in thread Encoding of DBI PostgreSQL output by Kjetil

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