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in reply to question on encoding

You need something like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Encode; my $uri = '%C3%A9nfasis'; $uri =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; $uri = decode_utf8($uri); $uri = encode("iso-8859-1", $uri); print $uri;
It prints énfasis.

     s;;Just-me-not-h-Ni-m-P-Ni-lm-I-ar-O-Ni;;tr?IerONim-?HAcker ?d;print