Most things answered fellow Almut to you and to others practically the way i think, so thank you Almut. In one aspect i want still point:
(That actually happened once, with the introduction of Perl 5.8.0 on RedHat Linux: the particular RedHat release used utf-8 locale settings for the "default" shell environment, and that version of Perl used the locale settings in order to decide what the default i/o layer should be.
If those scripts were broke after making locale spread default, those script were buggy, right? No one should use locale pragma if they don't mean it, right?

In reply to Re^2: Pragma to handle unicode characters by Anonymous Monk
in thread Pragma to handle unicode characters by wanradt

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