From: Jérémie NIKAES Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:59:32 GMT Subject: Re: Git-mediawiki : Encoding problems in perl Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2011/6/8 Jakub Narebski : >  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default > > especially accepted answer. Thanks for the link, do have some interesting things in here. >  use encoding ':utf8'; > > or > >  use encoding 'utf8'; That did it while keeping the use strict; intact. Thanks a lot -- Jérémie Nikaes