Gisle Aas writes: > - under 'use utf8', hibit chars that are illegal utf8 are encoded > using utf8; basically automatically turns latin1 into utf8. > This ensure that there will never be illegal UTF8 sequences in > a literal string that has the UTF8 flag set. Hmm??? Please no DWIM here. Programmers would like to know what their string literals mean. Or did I misunderstand you? > - Octal escapes like \400 and \777 will actually do the right thing now. > Previously you only got the low 8-bits. This always bothered me. perl -0777? Ilya