in reply to Re^2: My UTF-8 text isn't surviving I/O as expected
in thread My UTF-8 text isn't surviving I/O as expected

> reading UTF-8 from command line arguments

Perl Unicode Cookbook: Decode @ARGV as UTF-8

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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