in reply to Re: Even more puzzled than before
in thread Even more puzzled than before

Well, the reason behind this was to test the behavior of command-line arguments. So, as my terminal would have typed "latin-1" accents, and not UTF-8 sequences, I used the output from the command to get a UTF-8 string.

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Re^3: Even more puzzled than before
by RonW (Parson) on Jun 24, 2014 at 05:02 UTC
    This makes a lot of sense.