in reply to Re^9: avoid writing 'use utf8' in every script
in thread avoid writing 'use utf8' in every script

Hm, according to my testings UTF-8 BOM (on Linux) does not work at all (does not affect how perl behaves). And this note in documentation is just wrong.
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