in reply to Re^2: converting utf-8 to ISO-8859-1
in thread converting utf-8 (entities?) to ISO-8859-1

Yes, but Encode comes with 5.8.x only. Nothing comparable exists for earlier perls. My solution will work for 5.6.x too.

Earlier perls are UTF-8-unaware, so for those, a different solution has to be handcrafted, still.

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