There are two key questions that need to be answered.

In this case, that means

Taking some guesses, we end up with: 

use Encode      qw( decode encode );
use LWP::Simple qw( get );

my $URL     = ...;
my $web_enc = 'UTF-8';
my $out_enc = 'iso-latin-1';

my $web_octets = get($URL);
my $chars      = decode($web_enc, $web_octets);
my $out_octets = encode($out_enc, $chars);
print($out_octets);

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Note: from_to could be used as a shortcut for decode plus encode.

Ok, I kinda lied. In this case, it's not necessary to know the encoding of the downloaded content because the web server should tell us what it is. 

use LWP::UserAgent qw( );

my $URL     = ...;
my $out_enc = 'iso-latin-1';

# Saves us from encoding chars sent to STDOUT.
binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding($out_enc)");

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $ua->get($URL);
my $chars    = $response->decoded_content(default_charset => 'UTF-8');
print($chars);

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Update: Non-core module Term::Encoding can help determine the value for $out_enc..

In reply to Re: LWP::Simple // Special Character problems. by ikegami
in thread LWP::Simple // Special Character problems. by RipHard

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