With today's snapshot on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2-1, I see: ext/Encode/t/perlio.................FAILED at test 27 Failed 1 test script out of 620, 99.84% okay. Details below. I'm afraid I have no idea where to start with the "does not map to Unicode" errors. $ perl [-.ext.encode.t]perlio.t 1..28 ok 1 - >:encoding(euc-cn) <snip> ok 26 - >:encoding(euc-kr) by lines euc-kr "\xAD" does not map to Unicode at [-.ext.encode.t]perlio.t line 106, <$fh> line 230. not ok 27 - <:encoding(euc-kr) # Failed test ([-.ext.encode.t]perlio.t at line 109) euc-kr "\xAD" does not map to Unicode at [-.ext.encode.t]perlio.t line 117, <$fh> line 230. not ok 28 - <:encoding(euc-kr) by lines # Failed test ([-.ext.encode.t]perlio.t at line 123) # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 28. %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort $