PerlMonks seems to send pages in ISO-8859-1 encoding, which is giving me some unexpected trouble. To fix it, I've decided to use Encode to translate data to UTF-8 as soon as I download it. However, Perl is laughing at my attempts (the string is "Ámbito" in ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 encodings):

$ perl -MEncode -e '$_="\xc3\x81mbito"; print $_, encode "iso-8859-1",
+ $_' | xxd
0000000: c381 6d62 6974 6fc3 816d 6269 746f       ..mbito..mbito
$ perl -MEncode -e '$_="\xc3\x81mbito"; print $_, decode "iso-8859-1",
+ $_' | xxd
0000000: c381 6d62 6974 6fc3 816d 6269 746f       ..mbito..mbito

$ perl -MEncode -e '$_="\xc1mbito";     print $_, encode "iso-8859-1",
+ $_' | xxd
0000000: c16d 6269 746f c16d 6269 746f            .mbito.mbito
$ perl -MEncode -e '$_="\xc1mbito";     print $_, decode "iso-8859-1",
+ $_' | xxd
0000000: c16d 6269 746f c16d 6269 746f            .mbito.mbito

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Most probably, PEBKAC but I don't see the "P". It isn't late enough (2:00 am) for this to be a silly thing :). I've "resolved" it using from_to but I don't have the feeling that this is the right way.

Update: No echo | perl needed. Changed examples accordingly. Clarified the meaning of the string literal. Updated PEBKAC link to use [jargon://].

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David Serrano

In reply to Encode: unable to change encoding of strings by Hue-Bond

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