If I store your sample text on my local drive, then convert that text file to utf8 (because what you have posted is iso-8859-1 or equivalent -- i.e. single-byte per accented character), I can solve one of your problems by adding "-CS" to the perl command line: 
perl -CS -MText::Autoformat -e'...

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That extra option tells perl to set utf8 discipline for both STDIN and STDOUT (the equivalent of doing  binmode ..., ":utf8" on both file handles).

As for the left-margin problem (why is it indenting all the lines), if I delete the initial whitespace from the beginning of the sample data, the indentation goes away completely (including on the first line). That also happens if I add an explicit option for the left margin in the hash of config settings:  left => 1

Apparently, the docs are a bit misleading about what the default behavior is: the actual behavior is that if a string begins with whitespace, the default is to prepend that much whitespace to all the wrapped lines on output. I haven't found anything yet in the man page that talks about indenting only the first line of a paragraph.

(update: If your input data is really 8859-1, you can use "-CO" (capital letter o) instead of "-CS", and perl will do the Right Thing. If the input is actually some other non-utf8 encoding, you'll need to use  binmode STDIN, ":encoding(whatever)" for perl to read it properly, and then still use "-CO" to output utf8.)

In reply to Re: Text::Autoformat: usage and multibyte-encoded text by graff
in thread Text::Autoformat: usage and multibyte-encoded text by Hue-Bond

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