I have an issue with reading a gzipped UTF-8 encoded file.

Here is an example:

preparation: put an umlaut into a file and gzip it. Also 

echo ü > umlaut
gzip -k umlaut

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Now check the difference :( 

perl -e '
  use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip;
  binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
  open my $in, "<:utf8", "umlaut";
  $_=<$in>;
  print "Uncompressed: $_ ",ord($_),"\n";
  my $gin= IO::Uncompress::Gunzip->new("umlaut.gz");
  binmode($gin, ":utf8");
  $_=<$gin>;
  print "  Compressed: $_ ",ord($_),"\n";
'

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Output 

Uncompressed: ü
 252
  Compressed: ü
 195

In theory there shouldn't be a difference between the outputs :(

Update: I learned that "binmode" won't do anything to the IO::Uncompress::Gunzip filehandle.

Handling the decode myself, not relying on an IO-layer, gives the expected result: 

perl -e '
  use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip;
  use Encode;
  binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
  my $gin= IO::Uncompress::Gunzip->new("umlaut.gz");
  $_=<$gin>;
  $_ = Encode::decode("UTF-8", $_);
  print "  Compressed: $_ ",ord($_),"\n";
'

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Update: As suggested by Corion I'm now using PerlIO::gzip. My Original code, note the test example shown here, now is: 

        my $encoding = ":utf8";
        if ( $filename =~ /\.gz$/ ) {
            $encoding = ":gzip$encoding";
        }
        open $in, "<$encoding", $filename or die "Can't read $filename
+: $!\n";

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s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
+.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

In reply to issue with reading IO::Uncompress:Gunzip and utf-8 by Skeeve

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