LWP wont change the encoding, but your console might display weird stuff, for example cmd.exe displays
$ chcp
Active code page: 437

$ echo Limón  |od -tacx1
0000000   L   i   m   "   n  sp  sp  cr  nl
          L   i   m   ó   n          \r  \n
        4c 69 6d a2 6e 20 20 0d 0a
0000011

$ perl -le"  print for @ARGV" Limón |od -tacx1
0000000   L   i   m   s   n  cr  nl
          L   i   m   ≤   n  \r  \n
        4c 69 6d f3 6e 0d 0a
0000007

$ perl -le" binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(cp437)'; print for @ARGV" Limón
+ |od -tacx1
0000000   L   i   m   "   n  cr  nl
          L   i   m   ó   n  \r  \n
        4c 69 6d a2 6e 0d 0a
0000007

$ perl -le" binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; print for @ARGV" Limón
+ |od -tacx1
0000000   L   i   m   C   3   n  cr  nl
          L   i   m   ├   │   n  \r  \n
        4c 69 6d c3 b3 6e 0d 0a
0000010

$

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In reply to Re^2: Encoding issue by Anonymous Monk
in thread Encoding issue by Anonymous Monk

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