in reply to Re^2: Using binmode on ARGV filehandle? (open.pm)
in thread Using binmode on ARGV filehandle?

You could use the same trick we use for fooling dynaloader or Oracle:

BEGIN { if( ! $ENV{PERLIO} ) { $ENV{PERLIO}= ":utf8"; exec $^X, $0, @ARGV; } }

- tye