If you're using Perl 5.8.something, you probably want to look up Encode, which lets you do things like: 
use Encode;

# ...  $buff holds a utf8 string:

my $cp1250buff = encode( 'cp1250', $buff );

[download]
But as grantm points out in his reply, a cp1250-encoded string is only useful as something to write as output to a file that needs to be written with this particular encoding. And in that case, you don't even need the Encode module -- just use binmode on the output file handle, as explained in the PerlIO man page: 
open( OUTPUT, ">output.txt" ) or die $!;
binmode OUTPUT, ":encoding(cp1250)";

#  ... or just use the 3-arg version of open:
# open( OUTPUT, ">:encoding(cp1250)", "output.txt" )

[download]

In reply to Re: XML::Parser & encoding by graff
in thread XML::Parser & encoding by Szani

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.