SV = PV(0x9cf0060) at 0x9fbde50
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x9fa6988 "Tr?ningsredskap"\0
  CUR = 15
  LEN = 16
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This looks like Latin-1

SV = PV(0x9cefdd0) at 0x87c2800
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x9f9b490 "Tr\303\244ningsredskap"\0 [UTF8 "Tr\x{e4}ningsredska
+p"]
  CUR = 16
  LEN = 20
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A proper string in Perl's internal format. Should be fine to print out if you add that IO layer, or put it through Encode::encode.

SV = PV(0x9cefdd0) at 0x87c2800
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x9f7ca38 "Tr\357\277\275ningsredskap"\0 [UTF8 "Tr\x{fffd}nings
+redskap"]
  CUR = 17
  LEN = 20
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This is wrong. It means you decoded something the wrong character encoding.

"A proper string in Perl's internal format. Should be fine to print out if you add that IO layer, or put it through Encode::encode. " - Even if the browser environment is iso-8859-1? :-)

Even if the browser environment is iso-8859-1?

If you encode to ISO-8859-1, or set up your IO layer as ":encoding(ISO-8859-1)", sure.

Note that I originally asked for the encoding of your terminal, but if this is a CGI script, the "charset" mentioned in the HTTP header counts.

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