in reply to Re^4: Help with pack error
in thread Help with pack error

I wonder if UTF-8 is automatically selected as I don't turn it on at all.

I'm not aware of any mechanism by which that could happen, but I have little experience in the subject.

If, for example, you are running in a utf-8 enabled shell and you start perl, does it inherit it standard handles from that shell, and therefore their utf-8ness as well? Dunno, worth asking though.

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