Hi, I am using the below method to convert a string(which contains the contents of a file) into UTF-8 encoding. But some of the contents like Copyright symbol, Trademark and syperscript symbol is not converting proplery and these symbols are displayed as Â. Could anyone please help me in solving this problem. 
sub convertoUtf{
my $your_data = shift;
my $encoding = 'ISO-8859-1';
    if ($encoding ne 'UTF-8'){
        my $ustr = Unicode::String->new();
        if ($encoding eq 'UTF-16'){
            $ustr->utf16( $your_data );
        }else{
            my $map = Unicode::Map->new( $encoding );
            if (! $map ){
            # Deal with the unsupported encoding somehow;
            # you probably want to have a message like this:
            # "Unsupported XML encoding: $encoding");
            }
            $ustr->utf16( $map->to_unicode( $your_data ) );
        }
        $your_data = $ustr->utf8();
    }
return $your_data;
}

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In reply to convert a string(which contains the contents of a file) into UTF-8 encoding by kamalakar

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