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in reply to Proper Unicode handling in Perl
in thread Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch?

Nice progress! You don't even need the Encode module :)

This is a pretty straightforward way to deal with Unicode and UTF-8.

The remaining mentions of UTF-8 in your code have all their justification:

There are two caveats: