Dear monks,

I have a string (actually a complex data structure with strings in it) and encode it with Encode::encode('iso-8859-15', $string). The Encode pod says: 
When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.

That's fine, because I want the utf8 flag off. But later, after some processing, the utf8 flag is on! Arrgh!

And so I ask: when does perl (v5.8.0) turn this utf8 flag on?
Other strings and constants (here: constant strings in the perl code) are stored with utf8 off. I used Devel::Peek to check this.

Thanks, Uwe

EDIT: I'm using mod_perl (v1.27).

In reply to When is the utf8-flag turned on? by uwevoelker

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