1. I'm fairly sure it's use encoding 'utf8'; not UTF-8. But that should be equivalent to use utf8; which you already use. I wouldn't be too confident that using both "use encoding" AND "use utf8" will work as expected.

2. Both pragmas only influence the encoding of your code. That means that a) your code file should now be utf-8 encoded or you'll get all kinds of errors. b) your output and input encoding is not affected at all so it's still possible that input and output will be in some other encoding.

3. perl does not understand unicode locales. In fact the documentation specifically warns against using both locales and unicode. You're probably better off specifically setting a binmode(STDOUT,":utf8"); instead of using the locale.

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In reply to Re: utf8, locale and regexp by Joost
in thread utf8, locale and regexp by Anonymous Monk

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