I just tried this on 5.10.1 from cmd.exe and I got no difference between the two processes. Of course this is assuming that the text I see on my browser is exactly the same as you mean, since translation can occur there as well.

The cmd.exe did not display the £ correctly, it gave:
test1.pl: <abcú>
test2.pl: <abcú>

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You do not say exactly what "garbled" is. It might help if you display the characters in hex. printf "%x", $ENV{TEST}; before and after you pass them through the environment block to see what the change really is.

I am interested in your perception of perl translating from Windows 1252 to utf-8 and back - can you cite the reference where you read that?

In reply to Re: Perl character encoding by cdarke
in thread Perl character encoding by kartlee1

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