in reply to Permanent utf8

This thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default
seems to have insight as to why. Particlarly tchrist's post if you scroll down..
His first recommendation is to set your PERL_UNICODE env variable to  AS

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Re^2: Permanent utf8
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 10, 2014 at 15:44 UTC
    And yet, even if we do everything that tchrist recommended, something as simple as "... or die $!;" will easily produce mojibake if STDERR is utf-8.
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