Convert ISO8859-1 to UTF8

[<Mar...@ml...>]

Hi everybody,

how can i convert an iso8859-x string that is read out of a file into an utf8
string that is written to a ldap server. i have already used the perlmodule
convert::recode
but it doesn't works... also the command 'recode xxx..xxx file.xy' is no
solution becaus it converts the whole file and not only the needed string...

any help would be welcome
have a nice day
martin