#!/usr/bin/perl use Encode qw( encode decode ); my $unicode_name_CURRENCY_SIGN = chr(0xa4); print "In iso-8859-1: <", encode('iso-8859-1',$unicode_name_CURRENCY_SIGN),">\n"; print "In iso-8859-15: <", encode('iso-8859-15',$unicode_name_CURRENCY_SIGN),">\n"; print "In windows-1252: <", encode('cp1252',$unicode_name_CURRENCY_SIGN),">\n"; print "In utf-8: <", encode('utf-8-strict',$unicode_name_CURRENCY_SIGN),">\n";