The iso-latin-1 character set is much smaller than the Unicode character set. Fortunately, HTML provides a mechanism to encode character not present in the used character set.

Option 1 (Works with any encoding): 

my $to_entitise = q{<>&"'}; # Unsafe for HTML

my $decoded_text = decode('UTF-8', $utf8_text);
my $decoded_html = encode_entities($decoded_text, $to_entitise);
my $latin1_html = encode('iso-latin-1', $decoded_html, Encode::FB_HTML
+CREF);

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Option 2 (Leverages our knowledge of iso-latin-1): 

my $to_entitise =
   q{<>&"'} .              # Unsafe for HTML
   q{\x{100}-\x{1FFFFF}};  # Not present in iso-8859-1

my $decoded_text = decode('UTF-8', $utf8_text);
my $decoded_html = encode_entities($decoded_text, $to_entitise);
my $latin1_html = encode('iso-latin-1', $decoded_html);

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Option 3 (Works with any encoding by using HTML entities for more than needed): 

my $decoded_text = decode('UTF-8', $utf8_text);
my $decoded_html = encode_entities($decoded_text);
my $latin1_html = encode('iso-latin-1', $decoded_html);

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If your UTF-8 encoded data is HTML rather than text, you can use: 

my $to_entitise = q{\x{100}-\x{1FFFFF}};  # Not present in iso-8859-1

my $decoded_html = decode('UTF-8', $utf8_html);
$decoded_html = encode_entities($decoded_html, $to_entitise);
my $latin1_html =  encode('iso-latin-1', $decoded_html);

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Common headers and test data: 

use charnames      qw( :full );  # For \N on older Perls
use Encode         qw( encode decode );
use HTML::Entities qw( encode_entities );

my $utf8_text = encode('UTF-8', "a\N{U+00E9}\N{U+2660} 1<4");
my $utf8_html = encode('UTF-8', "a\N{U+00E9}\N{U+2660} <b>foo</b>");

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Update: Small fixes to bugs found during testing.

In reply to Re: Converting UTF8 to Latin1 by ikegami
in thread Converting UTF8 to Latin1 by sumeetgrover

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