in reply to Re^2: Reading File with Czech text inside
in thread Reading File with Czech text inside

If the file is encoded using iso-8859-2 (like file_iso-8859-2.txt above), 

open my $FH, "<:encoding(iso-8859-2)", 'file_iso-8859-2.txt'
   or die "$!\n";

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If the file is encoded using UTF-8 (like file_utf-8.txt above), 

open my $FH, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", 'file_utf-8.txt'
   or die "$!\n";

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