Re^9: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled...

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
$

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