Re:^2 Setting UTF-8 mode on filehandle reads?

open(FILE, "<", "/path/to/utf8/file.txt") || die "$!";

Why don't use perl 5.8.0 and simply specify IO 'layer' when using three-argument form of open?

open(FILE, '<:utf8', '/path/to/utf8/file.txt') || die $!;

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Re: Re:^2 Setting UTF-8 mode on filehandle reads? by grantm (Parson) on Dec 06, 2002 at 18:14 UTC
Why don't use perl 5.8.0... um, because the original poster was looking for a 5.6.1 solution. (And if you actually read my reply you'd see that I suggested exactly what you propose in the first line!)	[reply]