Perl used to only allow ASCII in identifiers, if you use you can "use utf8" in recent perls to indicate that you want to be able to use unicode identifiers.

String literals in perl can be in any encoding, but how they will look in your editor is dependent on the editor (and possibly on markings in the file). Most modern editors support UTF-8 unicode encoding, and I'd guess that most win32 editors support the win32 specific encodings too.

Input & output can be in many encodings, but in most cases, you need to specify what encoding you're going to use.

See perluniintro, binmode, utf8 and Encode.

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In reply to Re: replacing special characters in file by Joost
in thread replacing special characters in file by juo

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