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in reply to Re: unicode DWIM?
in thread unicode DWIM?

I am talking about non-us-ascii characters. Such as the german umlauts äöü - they are passed on the command line encoded in the current locale of the terminal (as one would expect), but i haven't been able to find a sane way to tell perl that "stdin, stdout and commandline" are in the locale that the user has set.