"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I am also wondering, now that it's been raised, if we need to issue a "use
> utf8;" in the startup code, so that literals in the code get the right
> encoding.
Good question. I took care to ensure that the code strings passed to
Perl are marked as UTF8; perhaps that makes it happen implicitly?
If not, are there any downsides to issuing "use utf8"?
regards, tom lane