Hello dear fellow nuns and monks!

While researching for a encoding problem, I wanted to retrieve the value of the current windows ANSI code page.
This can be done e.g. with Powershell like this:

Get-WinSystemLocale | Select-Object -ExpandProperty TextInfo | Select-Object -Property ANSICodePage
which gives the following output: 

ANSICodePage
------------
        1252

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Instead of calling PowerShell and parsing its output, I tried to use Perl's own facilities.

perl -MWin32 -we "print Win32::GetACP()"
which however gave the following output:

65001
indicating an UTF8 ANSI code page instead of Western-Europe one (cp1252) from above.

I am using Strawberry Perl 5.38.0 64-bit with its own W32 module running on Windows 11.

Is this behavior understood and known? Did I miss something or could it be a bug?
Thanks very much for your attention!

In reply to confusing result from Win32::GetACP() by hexcoder

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