Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But there is a simple workaround for that, as perluniintro would tell >> you: the encoding pragma. > >The encoding pragma partially works. It doesn't influence assumed >encoding of files opened without specifying the encoding, nor handling >of filenames, and it needs to be told about the encoding literally. >How to say it should be taken from the locale?
Once we had use encoding qw(locale); But it did not work well as not all locale implementations give the API to return the encoding. (And even en_GB can be in ASCII, 8859-1, 8859-15 (with euro), UTF-8, ...)
