+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Decoded Text | | | | | | +--------------------+ downgrade +--------------------+ | | | Internally encoded | --------------> | Internally encoded | | | | as UTF-8 | | as iso-8859-1 | | | | (is_utf8 = 1) | <-------------- | (is_utf8 = 0) | | | +--------------------+ upgrade +--------------------+ | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ^ | | encode | | decode | | v | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Bytes or | | Encoded Text | | | | | | +--------------------+ downgrade +--------------------+ | | | Internally encoded | --------------> | Internally encoded | | | | as UTF-8 | | as iso-8859-1 | | | | (is_utf8 = 1) | <-------------- | (is_utf8 = 0) | | | +--------------------+ upgrade +--------------------+ | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ #### use Encode qw(is_utf8 encode decode); binmode STDOUT,':encoding(iso-8859-1)'; my $str = "This's a \x{201c}test\x{201d}"; # This is a "decoded" str. print "$str\n"; # Encoded by :encoding #### use Encode qw(is_utf8 encode decode); my $str = "This's a \x{201c}test\x{201d}"; # This is a "decoded" str. print encode('iso-8859-1', "$str\n");