Aw. You can't use 'utf16' for "use encoding" or PerlIO. You have to
specify the endianness. Because of the BOM mark you can't use it for
PerlIO stream.
Hmm.... Even with endianness strictly set PerlIO still warns w/ partial
character warning. Should I mark all UTF as non-PerlIO-savvy (at least
BOMless ones should be done so). Since Partial Character warnings are
handled by PerlIO::encoding, it takes NI-XS to fix the prob....
Dan the Encode Maintainer
Actually this was originally reported by David Dyck wondering why ":utf16"
doesn't work in the three argument form of open: open(FH, ":utf16", $file).
(One gets a complaint of PerlIO/utf16.pm not existing.) I thought:
'Ha! Of course one needs to do ":encoding(utf16)" instead!'-- but that
didn't work much better, as you can see.
See http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15533
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