On 2011-02-14 13:11:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Perl is specifically documented to not do this for backward compatibility
> reasons. In Perl, which is the one I know best, you are required to
> decode input and encode output if you want to have UTF-8 handling.
Or better, use the -C option.
perl -C -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n"'
will "work" under both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. Or you can force UTF-8 with:
perl -CSD -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n"'
You can also do that globally with the PERL_UNICODE environment variable.
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