in reply to Re:^2 Setting UTF-8 mode on filehandle reads?
in thread Setting UTF-8 mode on filehandle reads?

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!)

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