I'm getting the above error, but ONLY when I pipe the following script through pp. 
    require Encode;
    require Encode::Locale;
    print "no";

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I'm executing pp with the following: 
pp test_locale.pl

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perl -v returns 
This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for MSWin32-x
+86-multi-t
hread
(with 9 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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Anyone with some insight that I'm missing?

In reply to The locale codeset (cp1252) isn't one that perl can decode by jellisii2

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