How to decode broken doubly-encoded UTF-8 in Perl

This example program shows how to decode broken UTF-8 encoding which has been encoded such that each byte has turned into a Unicode character.

#!/home/ben/software/install/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use utf8;
use FindBin '$Bin';
use Unicode::UTF8 'decode_utf8';
binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)";
my $broken = 'From the female squash champion fleeing the Taliban, to the gay popstar who became a hit back in macho Brazil, it’s often Canada’s newcomers who can tell its most dramatic stories';
my $ok = fix_title ($broken);
print "$ok\n";
exit;

sub fix_title
{
    my ($title) = @_;
    my @chars = split //, $title;
    my $oktitle = '';
    for my $char (@chars) {
        #print "$char";
        my $o = ord ($char);
        if ($o < 256) {
            $oktitle .= pack ("C", $o);
        }
        else {
            warn "large character $o in $title";
            return $title;
        }
    }
    #print "\n";
    $oktitle = decode_utf8 ($oktitle);
    return $oktitle;
}

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