There's a bit of a gotcha involved with redirecting filehandles when layers are involved. What I wanted to do was:

• Redirect STDOUT to a file, with the :utf8 layer
• Redirect STDERR to STDOUT (assuming STDOUT's :utf8 layer would still apply)

I found that text going to STDOUT was correctly UTF8 encoded, but text going to STDERR wasn't.

You need to add the :utf8 layer to STDERR separately. As far as I can see, there is no way of combining layers with redirection in the same open statement. Instead, you need to use binmode on STDERR after redirecting it to STDOUT.

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    my $utf8="\xe9";

    close (STDOUT);
    open( STDOUT, ">>:utf8", 'test.txt' ) or die $!;
    close STDERR;
    open( STDERR, ">>&STDOUT" ) or die $!;

    print        ("STDOUT: ",$utf8,"\n");
    print STDERR ("STDERR: ",$utf8,"\n");

    binmode (STDERR,':utf8');
    print STDERR ("STDERR with binmode: ",$utf8,"\n");
    
    
PRINTS:

    STDOUT: é
    STDERR: \xe9            (not literally - prints character \xe9, no
+t UTF-8 encoded)
    STDERR with binmode: é
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Clint

(thanks to tye and Joost for helping me figure this out)

Update: Filed as bug 44701

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