in reply to converting utf-8 (entities?) to ISO-8859-1

If your data is utf8, you have to convert it to iso-8859-1 yourself. 

use Encode;

$eightbit = Encode("iso-8859-1", $utf8_data_from_database);

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Re^2: converting utf-8 to ISO-8859-1
by phaylon (Curate) on Apr 21, 2005 at 20:19 UTC
    I agree. But be aware that not everything which can be encoded in UTF-8 can also be encoded in 8859-1.
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