That's not how I see it. I see the system-ed perl as an autonomous process (unknowing of its parent process) with its STDOUT filehandle set with different encodings.

In both cases, we're printing out a string with one character at codepoint U+00FF.

The second system-ed perl has its output encoding set to UTF-8 (via -CO). What octets do we send out into the cruel world for U+00FF character encoded in UTF-8? Ans: c3 bf.

The first system-ed perl has its output "set" to byte/Latin-1 encoding (the default). What octets do we send out into the cruel world for U+00FF character encoded in Latin-1? Ans: ff.

The first case did not print c3 bf just because of the parent perl -CO because the system print did not go through the parent's perlio.

In reply to Re^7: Standard handles inherited from a utf-8 enabled shell by repellent
in thread Standard handles inherited from a utf-8 enabled shell by BrowserUk

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