> I was advised not to use the encoding pragma, and I'm passing that > advice on to you.
Thank you for the additional references. As documented in http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80030 there seems to be a problem when "use encoding 'utf8'" is removed and replaced with "use utf8", so the problem is not limited to the "encoding" pragma. ˉ
