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  • use UTF;

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    You probably mean 

    use utf8;

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  • Note that in MySQL, you can configure the encoding used for: plus various defaults in case any of the specific ones wasn't specified.

  • Note that :utf8 and :encoding(UTF-8) layers aren't identical. The latter is more strict and does more checks.

  • this can fail if the $filename variable is not also in UTF8

    The encoding of the contents is in no way related to the encoding of the filename. Moreover, at least in a web app, the filename on your system should be controlled by you, not a user input, so you should always know what encoding the filename uses.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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    In reply to Re: Converting everything (MySql, perl, CGI, website) to UTF-8 by choroba
    in thread Converting everything (MySql, perl, CGI, website) to UTF-8 by jfrm

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