Thanks. I completely agree with your analysis, that's why I am so puzzled with the result.

Before going insane, I thought about "getting a second opinion" and installed another portable version of Strawberry Perl (5.40.2.1 64-bit). When running the one-liner there, I get the expected result (1252).

So, depending on the Perl version i use, I get 1252 or 65001 as a result. Clearly there must be something fishy in the previous Perl installation, but it seems difficult to debug.

And please stop calling it the ANSI Code Page.
Ok, will do. My impression was that this the official wording.

In reply to Re^4: confusing result from Win32::GetACP() by hexcoder
in thread confusing result from Win32::GetACP() by hexcoder

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