On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:02:02AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > Yeah, I know "use utf8" doesn't work for that, but I was thinking there > > was some other trick. Digging...ah, here it is: > > > > use open ':encoding(utf8)' > > > > No clue how portable that is. For such a small script it may be better > > to just stick with vanilla binmode(). > > Yeah that would work, but doesn't work on 5.8.0, which is the lowest > version we support. Thanks for looking that up. For the benefit of the maintainer, I'll summarize: Ævar's original patch is fine as-is. -Peff