Excactly, perl changes the LATIN1 back to unicode because the output stream STDOUT is utf8 in your case.

What you would have to do to see funny characters is to change the output stream with :encoding(...). On my machine

> perl -e 'binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(iso-8859-1)"; print STDOUT "Hüsk
+er Dü\n";'
Hüsker Dü
> perl -e 'binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)"; print STDOUT "Hüsker Dü\
+n";'
H**sker D**

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I changed the nearly unprintable characters to **. Actually I was surprised to find out my linux is still using latin1 on the shell (or my reasoning is wrong).

You can find out some more with 'man perlunicode' and 'man encode'

In reply to Re: How to test different encoding by jethro
in thread How to test different encoding by ait

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