Re^2: How to encode for non-unicode output

ExifTool use UTF-8 as default. If I print it out w/o encoding, the text is correct with charset set to UTF-8. So the decoding is done, or the source is UTF-8.

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Re^3: How to encode for non-unicode output by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 05, 2008 at 15:55 UTC
If the source is UTF-8, most string operations (like encoding into a specified character encoding) behaves very differently in the two cases (decoded or not decoded). If it's indeed decoded, `encode($destination_encoding, $string)` will work (but you still need to know in which encoding you want to store it).	[reply] [d/l]