The 'perluniintro' and 'perlunicode' may be of help, online
for example at http://www.perldoc.com/,
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.html
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlunicode.html
As Autrijus mentioned, the implicit "UTF-8-ification" based on
one's locale settings is
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:23:49PM -0500, Tay, William wrote:
> Internally, Perl represent character strings in UTF8. The PerlIO layer for
> input and output enables other encodings to be used for STDIN, STDOUT,
> STDERR and filehandling operations. For instance, if ru_RU.KOI8-R is
> specified (use
