Ere Maijala writes

> # Fix non-UTF-8 characters with two highest bits set (we assume they
> are actually ISO-8859-1)

  What about

use Encode::Guess qw/latin-1/;
$decoded=decode("Guess", $dodgy_input);

  $decoded then should be a utf-8 string with utf8 flag on.


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