Printing a multilanguage text as unicode

Hi all,

How can I get a text with special chars which contains words in more
languages, for example in french, spanish and romanian, and convert that
text as a single UTF-8 string?

I see that I need to use Encode::decode and Encode::encode methods, but I
need to specify the type of text I want to encode or decode, or it would
work for all these languages if I would specify "latin1" for them all?

Thank you much.

Teddy,
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