Download → files/toiso pl.txt
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$| = 1;
use strict;
use Unicode::String qw(latin1 utf8);
my $foo = $ARGV[0] || '';
$foo = &toISO($foo);
print "-> $ARGV[0]\n";
print "<- $foo\n";
sub toISO($) {
my $text = $_[0];
# if this host was UTF-8 encoded:
my $text_iso = (utf8($text))->latin1;
my $text_utf8 = (latin1($text_iso))->utf8; # reverse check
if ($text ne $text_utf8) {
# print STDERR "Unequal reverse check! It seems your input data \"$text\" is ",
# "ISO encoded already, so you don't need the latin1 encoding stuff here!\n";
# I'm going to fix this
$text_iso = $text;
}
$text_iso;
}
See also:
To utf
Web encoding decoding