Re: Interpretation of non-UTF8 strings

> The encoding pragma partially works. It doesn't influence assumed
> encoding of files opened without specifying the encoding, nor handling
> of filenames, and it needs to be told about the encoding literally.
> How to say it should be taken from the locale?
The 'use open ":locale"' does not work for you?

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