UTF-8 encodings issues (Re^3: Sorting/Cleansing a Duplicate File)

see current thread Problems handling UTF8 ! And removing accents.
I have bookmarked Re: UTF-8 for Everything (mostly because of the links in there)
In my scripts (mostly Windows console), for data (text) files I often use
```
open (my $fh, '<:encoding(Windows-1252)', $fname) or die "cannot open 
+$fname: $!";
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```
and for output intended for the console window I use
```
binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(cp437)'; # or cp850
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```
(if your data really is UTF-8, then "encoding(utf-8)" should do the right thing
Also of interest: perluniintro and perlopentut

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