Isn't in fun to watch people do monologues on the list? Anyway, I re-read perldoc encoding just now, and it discourages the use of "use encoding" within modules, but notes that, if you have to do it, put "no encoding" at the end of the module. I tried that, and it works okay.
Sorry about the noise. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp
