On Sat, Aug 7, 2021, at 11:55 AM, Dan Book wrote: > Yes. POD parsers and the perl interpreter do not read the same parts of the file, ever. Thus they must each indicate to their corresponding parsers what encoding they contain. Assuming you mean this exactly as written, I don't believe this is true. use v5.34.0; use warnings; my $string = <<'END'; =encoding utf8 This is løvely døcumentation. =cut END say $string; Then… dinah:~$ perl demo.pl =encoding utf8 This is løvely døcumentation. =cut dinah:~$ pod2text demo.pl This is løvely døcumentation. It's all a muddle. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next