I am writing a small proxy here and have everything up and working except one thing: transcoding to utf-8. (Don't ask why this is needed...)

Each time I try to get utf-8 right, I get lost in all those perl versions with and without utf-8 support, in the (not working for me pack() trick), in checking the perl utf8 bits and reading the Encoding documentation.

And each time I end up with long lines of code that do not work. But I sense that there is an easy solution. Nobody else seems to have such a headache with utf-8. So:

What is the right "any-encoding - to - utf-8" three-liner I am missing?

Any hints to the right module from cpan welcome (and maybe a short example to finally use it right).


One more question:
Does LWP::UserAgent's
$response->decoded_content(default_charset => 'utf-8')

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always return utf-8?

In reply to How do I convert any given html to utf-8? by isync

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