Hello everyone.
My CGI scripts works with Cyrillic. "Works" means that:

• it contains unicoded Cyrillic literals
• it outputs unicoded Cyrillic
• it queries for unicoded JSON Cyrillic
• it receives and handles unicoded JSON Cyrillic (not UTF8-encoded sequences) like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&formatversion=2&list=allusers&auactiveusers&aufrom=Б

It is by now all fine and working but in order to achieve it I had to make my script like a drunk buddy I have to get from the bar back home :-) - once I lower attention, he tries to fell on the ground and sleep.

• I have use utf8; for script literals
• I have binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; for "wide character" warnings
• I have JSON->new->utf8(0)->decode($response->content) for LWP query results, a simple decode_json from JSON module somewhere somehow mangles things
• I have my $unicode_literal = decode('utf-8', $data->{result}) from Encode module or else chars get jammed
• And a couple more things like this in other places

So my question is: does modern Perl have some "global super-mode use utf8"? So it would be like use utf8 - once placed at the beginning. But the effect would be to kill in the program any memories of any encoding but Unicode. So literally would mean "in this program there is nothing but Unicode. You get Unicode, you output Unicode. There is nothing in this world but Unicode." Something like this.

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