I've never used "encoding" myself, but you are not the first person I've come across here that has problems with encoding/utf8.

I would recommend switching from "use encoding 'utf8'" to "use utf8;". *) since it's

a) lexically scoped (instead of script-scoped) which makes a lot more sense. *)

b) doesn't appear to have some of the bugs that encoding has that I've seen on this site.

*) update: this means that you must use utf8; in all source files that are utf-8 encoded, which may be annoying. Perl core- and CPAN modules are usually 7-bit ASCII (or if they're utf-8 encoded they should use utf8), so it should only affect your own modules.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: use encoding 'utf8' and AutoLoader by Joost
in thread use encoding 'utf8' and AutoLoader by tinita

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