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Eliya
<blockquote>
<i> ... I _still_ get: \xc2\xa3 </i>
</blockquote>
<p> How do you tell? Did you print it to somewhere, etc.? What exactly do you finally want to achieve? </p>
<p> In case the idea is to convert the pound sign to Latin-1 encoding, you'd need to encode the decoded string again: </p>
<c>
$v = encode('ISO-8859-1', $v);
</c>
<p> Here's a complete example (note the differences in the PV representations in the 3 dumps): </p>
<c>
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Encode;
use Devel::Peek;
my $v= "%C2%A3";
$v =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/pack('C', hex($1))/eg;
Dump $v;
my $decoded = decode("UTF-8", $v);
Dump $decoded;
my $encoded = encode("ISO-8859-1", $decoded);
Dump $encoded;
__END__
SV = PVMG(0xf98470) at 0xf15d08
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (PADMY,SMG,POK,pPOK)
IV = 0
NV = 0
PV = 0xf46af0 "\302\243"\0
CUR = 2
LEN = 8
MAGIC = 0xf0f350
MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_mglob
MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_regex_global(g)
MG_LEN = -1
SV = PV(0xeee388) at 0xf16080
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
PV = 0xfe40c0 "\302\243"\0 [UTF8 "\x{a3}"]
CUR = 2
LEN = 8
SV = PV(0xeee448) at 0xf16110
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK)
PV = 0xfd44c0 "\243"\0
CUR = 1
LEN = 8
</c>
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