Have an error I have been working on for a few days. I am pulling HTML out of a database, it has encoded HTML entities in the output (IE ®).

I then take this data and write it to a CSV file. The error I am getting is when the CSV file is written it converts the ® to �

For troubleshooting I have a print line directly before I write the CSV file, however, this prints ® to the screen.

How can I get it to write ® to the file instead of �?

I've been trying unicode converting and a few similar methods. Out of ideas Monks! Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use DBI;
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::Write;

my $h=Spreadsheet::Write->new(
        file        => 'file.csv',
        encoding    => 'iso8859',
);

#connect to MySQL
my $dbh = DBI->connect(CONNECTION STRING HERE) or
        die "Can't connect to database\n";

my $sth_select = $dbh->prepare("SELECT id,overview FROM SOME_TABLE");

#EXECUTE SQL
$sth_select->execute();

$h->addrow('productcode','overview');

while (my ($id,$overview) = $sth_select->fetchrow_array()) {
        print "$overview\n";

        #PRINT CSV DATA
        $h->addrow($id,$overview);
}

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