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well, source filters which do some-encoding=>utf8 conversion are perfectly valid and I use those without fear, when write Russian perl programs, and they transparently do goood unicode work. 
use encoding cp1251=>Filter=>1;
print "here is russian string, which just work, despite its not utf-8"
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