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Created September 27, 2013 08:24
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Fix double encoded string
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fix-double-encode.pl
use Encode;
use Encode::DoubleEncodedUTF8;
my $dodgy_utf8 = "Some byte strings from the web/DB with double-encoded UTF-8 bytes";
my $fixed = decode("utf-8-de", $dodgy_utf8); # Fix it
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