Ah, I think I know where I went of the cliff now.

"use utf8" is only for the source itself, not for any character streams coming in or going out. For that I have to explicitly state the encoding. It seems I did not truly realize that perl has an internal way of using UTF-8 that has nothing to do with what encoding the shell is using. Am I correct in this assumption?

With what you and almut told me I got the example code working in a few seconds, so that gives me some hope I do understand at least somewhat better now.

Thanks very much for helping me renew my mastery of perl!

In reply to Re^2: Trying to understand behavior of split and perl in general with UTF-8 by hdv.jadev
in thread Trying to understand behavior of split and perl in general with UTF-8 by hdv.jadev

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