From reading the documentation it would appear that indeed LWP will return you a proper Perl string with properly decoded text if the correct Content-type header is present in the code. If the pages you are downloading are not in UTF-8 and they do not contain a Content-type header specifying what encoding they are in, then 

$response->decoded_content(default_charset => 'utf-8')

[download]
will not work and you will need to use some method to guess the correct encoding. But if those pages do have proper headers and/or you can otherwise assume they are in UTF-8, then yes that should work.

There is a one-line "any-encoding - to - utf-8" conversion in Perl, but it requires you to know what encoding you're starting with. The function to use is the decode function in Encode.

In reply to Re: How do I convert any given html to utf-8? by Errto
in thread How do I convert any given html to utf-8? by isync

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