Re: Matching upper ASCII characters in RE patterns

> I was advised not to use the encoding pragma, and I'm passing that
> advice on to you.
Thank you for the additional references.

As documented in http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80030 there 
seems to be a problem when "use encoding 'utf8'" is removed and replaced with 
"use utf8", so the problem is not limited to the "encoding" pragma.
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