use open ':locale'; use Encode; use strict; my $locEnc; for (PerlIO::get_layers(STDOUT)){ if (/encoding\((.*)\)/ || /(utf8)/ ){ $locEnc=$1;last; } } print "Locale encoding: $locEnc\n"; for (@ARGV) { $_=Encode::decode($locEnc,$_) } my $i=1; for (@ARGV) { print $i++," '",$_,"'(",length($_),")\n"; }