I'm happy to announce to the unsuspecting world that I've released to the CPAN a new Perl module, encoding::source . Like I say in the docs, this is like the encoding pragma, but done right. In other words, it allows you to change, on a per-file or per-block basis, the encoding of the string literals in your programs. That's probably some of the scariest Perl code I've written. Note that it won't