Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang

Fellow devoted, not too many moons back i asked here about your knowledge and got some good hints to get my perl things be more unicode-aware, i mean node Pragma to handle unicode characters

Now I upgraded my perl to 5.10 and got a bit of surprise yelling me:

Too late for "-C63" option at ... line 1.

First i thougt it as bug, but from perldelta i read:

The -C option can no longer be used on the #! line. It wasn't working there anyway.

Maybe it wasn't working at all, but for me it somehow still worked. So, i'm looking for alternative: how can i turn UTF8 on on every possible IO from inside of code.

There is also option to use env-variable PERL_UNICODE, but this is not always option. For example, how can i turn the variable on running CGI-script?

TIA

Nõnda, WK

Comment on Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang
Re: Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang by ikegami (Pope) on Apr 17, 2009 at 18:17 UTC
`-C63` is completely unreadable. Please use `-CSDA` instead. It's a bit better. You can do two of those letters using open: `use open IO => ':encoding(UTF-8)'; # -CD use open ':std' => ':encoding(UTF-8)'; # -CS` [download] But the simplest solution is not change anything and actually use the shebang line by launching the script directly, not as an argument to `perl`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang by wanradt (Scribe) on Apr 17, 2009 at 20:14 UTC
Could you, please, be more specific about your last sentence? How to launch directly? Nõnda, WK	[reply]
Re^3: Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang by ikegami (Pope) on Apr 17, 2009 at 20:45 UTC
Type `script.pl`, not `perl script.pl`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang by wanradt (Scribe) on Apr 18, 2009 at 20:02 UTC
Re^5: Unicodeness and deprecated -C on shebang by ikegami (Pope) on Apr 18, 2009 at 21:18 UTC
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