Decode everything that comes from the outside. Encode everything that leaves your program. use utf8;

Why use utf8;? As I understand the documentation, its purpose is to enable the source code to be in UTF-8 (so you can do e.g. my $ñ = 'foo'; where 'ñ' is not a single byte). It even says "Do not use this pragma for anything else than telling Perl that your script is written in UTF-8".

I thought the preferred way to decode/encode the program's input/output was by using Encode.

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 David Serrano
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In reply to Re^2: DWIM with non ASCII characters by Hue-Bond
in thread DWIM with non ASCII characters by andreas1234567

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