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with <vi7pl9-ui71....@anubis.morrow.me.uk> Ben Morrow wrote:

*SKIP*

> (In theory you can 'use encoding' to specify a different source
> character encoding, but in practice that pragma has always been buggy
> and is better avoided.)

Stop spreading FUD.  They need

	use encoding ENCNAME Filter => 1;

(what I<ENCNAME> could possibly be?) but

    *   "use utf8" is implicitly declared so you no longer have to "use
    	utf8" to "${"\x{4eba}"}++".

what pretty much defies the purpose of C<use encoding;>.

*SKIP*

> The lexer converts the "Ã¥" into a 1-character string which eventually
> gets passed to 'say', which appends a newline (that is, a character
> with ordinal 0a) and passes it to the STDOUT filehandle for writing. 

That's not a whole story.

	{2754:13} [0:0]% perl -Mutf8 -MDevel::Peek -wle '$aa = "а" ; Dump $aa'
	SV = PV(0x927a750) at 0x9295fac
	  REFCNT = 1
	  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
	  PV = 0x9291a08 "\320\260"\0 [UTF8 "\x{430}"]
	  CUR = 2
	  LEN = 12
	{2936:14} [0:0]% perl -Mutf8 -MDevel::Peek -wle '$aa = "Ã¥" ; Dump $aa' 
	SV = PV(0x9af4750) at 0x9b0ffac
	  REFCNT = 1
	  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
	  PV = 0x9b0ba08 "\303\245"\0 [UTF8 "\x{e5}"]
	  CUR = 2
	  LEN = 12

For a first glance, me wondered:  what the heck is with yours
C<use warnings;>.  Now I feel much better.

*CUT*

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