(caveat pre-emptor: I am a perl newbie..)

There are CJK errors when reading a text file - we do have Japanese content so this would be expected. We need support for UTF8 and shiftjis. Can I use a layered approach? Here is the code and the error

Current code:

  open(INFD,  '<:utf8',  $inFile)  or die "Cannot open  $inFile: $!";
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Current Error:

  ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe0b8
  HINT:  This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not matc
+h the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client
+_encoding".
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One Perl site recommended layered approach:

  open(INFD,  '<:utf8',  $inFile)  or die "Cannot open $inFile: $!";
  open(INFD,  '<:shiftjis',  $inFile)  or die "Cannot open $inFile: $!
+";
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Is this the way to go? Other ideas?

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