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Upgrading to a bleadperl version of IO isn't practical for me in my environment. So for now, I'll simply not use the open pragma to set default I/O layers and, instead, open files and set I/O layers explicitly in my Perl programs, like this…

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use autodie qw( open close );
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Text::CSV_XS;

my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new({
    always_quote => 1,
    binary       => 1,
    eol          => $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR,
});

binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';

for my $file (@ARGV) {
    open my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $file;

    while (my $fields = $csv->getline($fh)) {
        $csv->print(\*STDOUT, $fields);
    }

    $csv->eof() or $csv->error_diag();

    close $fh;
}

exit 0;

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Now if I could just figure out how best to handle UTF-8 CSV files that have byte order marks in them. ;-) Text::CSV_XS alone chokes on them. I'm currently doing this…

use File::BOM qw( open_bom );

open my $input_fh, '<:via(File::BOM)', $input_file;
open my $output_fh, '>:encoding(UTF-8):via(File::BOM)', $output_file;

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Is this The Right Way?

In reply to Re^2: Why Doesn't Text::CSV_XS Print Valid UTF-8 Text When Used With the open Pragma? by Jim
in thread Why Doesn't Text::CSV_XS Print Valid UTF-8 Text When Used With the open Pragma? by Jim

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