From the XML::LibXML::Parser pod:
parse_html_file 
$doc = $parser->parse_html_file( $htmlfile, \%opts );

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Similar to parse_file() but parses HTML (strict) documents; $htmlfile can be filename or URL.

An optional second argument can be used to pass some options to the HTML parser as a HASH reference. Possible options are: Possible options are: encoding and URI for libxml2 < 2.6.27, and for later versions of libxml2 additionally: recover, sup- press_errors, suppress_warnings, pedantic_parser, no_blanks, and no_network.

So you probably want something like 

my $dom = $parser->parse_html_string($htmlfromlwp, { encoding => 'iso8
+859-1' } );

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since setting the encoding after the fact ( = parsing) doesn't result in re-parsing.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: XML::LibXML encoding problem by shmem
in thread XML::LibXML encoding problem by user2000

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