Got a head-scratcher here.

I recently did a system update (Gentoo: emerge world) which broke a ton of crap, but I think I've got most of it sorted out. One thing I've not been able to figure out though is that a couple of scripts that used to work fine with WWW::Mechanize are now broken. The symptom is that the pages (which are euc-jp) are stored in utf8. (The HTML tag of course still says euc-jp, but it's mojibake when I view the page unless I chage it to unicode).

I had no other modules that did any of conversion, and confirmed that even the simplest of the few scripts I have output utf8. I can use Jcode to convert them back to euc easily enough... but I still want to know why.

No need to rack any brains on this one, but I find it quite silly.