in reply to Re: Encoding horridness
in thread Encoding horridness

A careless reader might see "utf8 interprets the characters in the right way" and get the idea that it's going to fix all their utf8 woes. To be clear, use utf8 only changes how perl reads your program source code -- probably just your string literals.

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Re^3: Encoding horridness
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 12, 2017 at 14:00 UTC
    The "the" in "the characters" means I referenced the characters in the element name. utf8 changes how Perl reads your program source, but it does more than string literals: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

use utf8;

my $á = 123;
say $á;

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}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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      Not disputing your facts, just trying to clarify. I figured the OP probably didn't have any unicode variable names in his existing program.

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