Re^3: while (<FH>) always ends with "Couldnt read from remote file: End of file at"

[haukex]

I agree on no strict 'refs';, but am not sure what "use utf8; ... decodes your command line as utf8" is supposed to mean (also considering this isn't a oneliner). Are you maybe thinking of use open qw/:std :utf8/; or perl -C instead? (see utf8 vs. open vs. -C)