Re^2: How to sanely handle unicode in perl?

Line 11 makes no sense. When you add the failure handling, you'll know why:

open STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)" or die $!;

[Khen1950fx]

Thanks for noticing. Of course, it makes no sense. My editor went a wee bit wonky on me. My bad---That's what I get for not looking at it again afterwards:).