#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.18.0; use warnings; use utf8::all; use Encode; use Encode::DoubleEncodedUTF8; my $bytes = "\321\201\321\202\321\200\321\203\320\272\321\202\321\203\321\200\320\260"; my $fixed = decode( "utf-8-de", $bytes ); say $fixed;