Re: Silence “Wide charact er” warning globally one time

[email protected] (Aristotle Pagaltzis) Tue, 3 Aug 2010 00:20:04 +0200

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* Michael Ludwig <[email protected]> [2010-07-30 01:20]:
> You need the equivalent of -CO in your script:
>
>   binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';

Argh, no, unfortunately not. The `:utf8` layer is bad. It does
the equivalent of `_utf8_on` on input and `_utf8_off` on output,
without actually decoding or (worse) encoding anything.

You want `:encoding(UTF-8)`.

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