RE: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

[email protected] ("PHILLIPS M.E.") Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:59:31 +0000
Newsgroups perl.perl4lib
Message-ID <DE5A87935C81284782298B0D297D6784224471DB@CISCMRMBS02.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk>
> You can set the correct encoding succinctly on opening files
>  e.g. open my $fh, '>:encoding(UTF-8)', $outfile

You might also see this even more succinct variant:

open my $fh, '>:utf8', $outfile

though technically speaking, that will not give you guaranteed conformant U=
TF-8 because it could contain code points that are excluded from the Unicod=
e standard.  So Colin's suggestion is safer.

Matthew