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in reply to Re^2: How to sanely handle unicode in perl?
in thread How to sanely handle unicode in perl?

I'm talking about locale (from use open qw(:std :locale)). encoding doesn't override locale (maybe it should? but it doesn't. They basically stack). Note that using :raw simply removes the locale layer (like removing use open ... entirely, because by default Perl ignores locales... for the most part).