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use utf8; #this script is written in UTF-8
 
my $string = "Äußerst süße Töchter aus Ölüberschußländern in Übergröße";

# treat all input and output as UTF-8 and set the flags correctly
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
binmode STDERR, ":utf8";
binmode STDIN,  ":utf8";

# read from a latin1 encoded file
open FH, "<:encoding(iso-8859-1)", 'test.latin1.txt';
$latin1 = <FH>;
close FH;
 
# read from a UTF-8 encoded file
open FH, "<:encoding(utf8)", 'test.utf8.txt';
$utf8 = <FH>;
close FH;

$DBH = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=foo;host=localhost",
                    'user',
                    'password',
                    {
                         mysql_enable_utf8 => 1
                    });

“”

use Encode;
 
# $line containes UTF-8 encoded text but the flag isn't set, yet
$line = Encode::decode_utf8($line); # set the flag

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