First, some background info. I had working perl modules for Windows 10 running DWIM perl for many years. Got a new PC last week, windows 11. Dwimperl was having problems installing with cpan for spreadsheet modules, and so I decided to remove DWIMPerl and install the latest Strawberry perl instead. cpan installed my needed spreadsheet modules correctly, so some of my code was now working. But in this module, I get this error: Wide character at C:\perl-lib-ctp/Fmsc.pm line 27, <INFILE> line 1. 
sub readfile_to_arr { # take in unicode utf8 text, return as array of 
+lines
    my $infilename = shift;
    my @lines =  ();
    use Encode;

    open INFILE,  "<:utf8" , $infilename || die ("can't open $infilena
+me") ;
 
(line 27)    while 
(line 28)  (my $line = decode_utf8(<INFILE>))
    {
        push(@lines, $line);
    }

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What's the error message complaining about? A wide character in my source code (which used to work fine on Windows 10 with DWIMperl), or is it complaining about contents of the actual <INFILE> being read in?

In reply to Wide character at C:\perl-lib-ctp/Fmsc.pm line 27, <INFILE> line 1. by frank5us

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