Re: Use of encoding/decoding and 3-param open

On 2007-11-13 19:56, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> 
>> $rv = open (OUT2, ">:utf8", "sample2");
> 
> Should work well. Remember that you shouldn't use :utf8 for input. In
> the general case, :encoding(UTF-8) is safest.

Can you elaborate more on the subtle difference between:

   binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");
   binmode(STDIN, ":encoding(UTF-8)");

besides that "UTF-8" is narrower than "utf8", as explained in the
man page of "Encode" (section: "UTF-8 vs. utf8").
For output, some codepoints allowed by "utf8" would raise an error in 
"UTF-8".
For input, both get the correct characters, assuming the input 
bytestream was indeed correct.  Or am I missing something?

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