Re^8: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled...

Except it doesn't convert in place...

perl -MEncode=encode -wE 'use utf8; my $c = q(Français); say $c; say e
+ncode("utf-8", $c)'
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It encodes the string to Latin-1. Or EBCDIC. Case closed.

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Re^9: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... by Jim (Curate) on Jun 22, 2014 at 19:08 UTC
Huh? $ chcp Active code page: 437 $ perl -MEncode=encode -wE 'use utf8; my $c = q(Français); say $c; say encode("utf-8", $c)' Wide character in say at -e line 1. Franτais Fran∩┐╜ais $	[reply]