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in reply to Re^3: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... (use open qw/ :std :locale /;
in thread Default encoding rules leave me puzzled...

I'm sorry, but I think that your "Perl tries to not convert anything at all, automatically" statement is wrong.
I mean, else, why would a string internally stored as UTF-8 be converted to Latin-1 when sent to the standard output ?
(That is, without having used any funny encoding/decoding/layer stuff...)