in reply to Bypass utf-8 encoding/decoding?

"...Not sure if this answers your question..." (Laurent_R)

Even more convenient - if this is what you need:

use utf8; use open IO => ':encoding(utf-8)', ':std';

See also Encoding horridness revisited: What's going on here? [SOLVED].

Besy regards, Karl

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