What is the best way to get Perl to use UTF-8 for everything, except for when I explicitly state otherwise. I was using use encoding qw( UTF-8 ); but in Perl 5.18 it's deprecated. I using this as a stop-gap:

use open qw( :encoding(utf8) );
binmode STDIN,  qw{ :encoding(UTF-8) };
binmode STDOUT, qw{ :encoding(UTF-8) };
binmode STDERR, qw{ :encoding(UTF-8) };

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Surely, there must be a more elegant way.

And a related question: In the HTML::TreeBuilder documentation, it says, "When you pass a filename to "parse_file", HTML::Parser opens it in binary mode, which means it's interpreted as Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). If the file is in another encoding, like UTF-8 or UTF-16, this will not do the right thing."

What would be a good replacement for HTML::TreeBuilder, keeping in mind that not all HTML pages are XML compliant?

In reply to UTF-8 for Everything by shawnhcorey

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