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in reply to Guess between UTF8 and Latin1/ISO-8859-1

reading through the pod source files (like on does when developing) I came across this in perlpodspec.pod. I've included the text verbatim from the link as it highlights (I think), insight into the problem. It reads ...

from this you should be able to work out UTF-8/Latin-1.