[Very long explanation of prospective parsing approach for 5.6 elided] > 3) Perl runs into a high bit in your script. At that point it > takes a look at what it has in its buffer. If it looks like > utf8, mark the script filehandle as utf8 and continue. If not, > mark the script filehandle as binary (equivalent to latin-1) > and continue. Does this mean that we'll be able to use, for example, %déjà_vu now, without any other special indications? Or will some LC_* envariable like to be set? Or a pragma? --tom