Re: Interpretation of non-UTF8 strings

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>>Also, 'use encoding' must still have the encoding specified literally,
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> Which makes a kind of sense to me.
> 'use encoding qw(...)' 
> (mainly) sets meaning of literals in the script.
> Presumably you know what encoding you are in when you write 
> your script, but you don't know what locale user will be in when script
> gets run.

Good point.  But the encoding pragma controls other things than just the
script encoding, and I like giving users too much rope, and the change
to support :locale for encoding is trivial, so I'll try.

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