That could be an option. But shouldn't this have an solution in the standard perl distribution?

I thought I was doing something wrong because it did not occurred to me that it was necessary to get into so specific details just to read an UTF-8 file. I never had before such problem to deal with UTF-8 files (with or without BOM) but I found some posts here about Text::CSV_XS and UTF-8. Looks like this module cannot deal with UTF-8 in anyway. Could it be because of the "XS" part of the module?

Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
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In reply to Re^2: Problems reading UTf-8 file with BOM by glasswalk3r
in thread Problems reading UTf-8 file with BOM by glasswalk3r

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