TMTOWTDI.

I think the right-to-left pipeline I used to damage the characters for the purpose of the demonstration…

#            <-- 3           <-- 2                  <-- 1
$foo = encode('UTF-8', decode('Windows-1252', encode('UTF-8', $foo)));
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…more clearly emulates what actually happens in the wild:  text is encoded in UTF-8, then wrongly decoded as if it were encoded in Windows-1252, then encoded again in UTF-8. I'm not sure what using the in-place convenience function Encode::from_to() lends to the clarity and effectiveness of the demonstration of the sequence of events.

FWIW, Encode::Repair uses Encode::encode() and Encode::decode(), not Encode::from_to().