I'm much tempted to go with these. Yes, it's ISO 8859-1-biased.
=item *
bytes_to_utf8(STRING)
The bytes in STRING are encoded in-place into UTF-8. The bytes
are expected to be encoded in US-ASCII or ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1).
Returns the new size of STRING, or C<undef> if there's a failure.
[INTERNAL] Also the UTF-8 flag of STRING is turned on.
=item *
utf8_to_bytes(STRING [, CHECK])
The UTF-8 in STRING is decoded in-place into bytes. Returns the new
size of STRING, or C<undef> if there's a failure.
What if there are characters > 255? What if the UTF-8 in STRING is
malformed? See L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
[INTERNAL] The UTF-8 flag of STRING is not checked.
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