Is -C useless?

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:19:17 +0200
Paul Johnson <paul at pjcj.net> wrote:

> since the standard streams are already set up
>   at this point in the execution of the perl interpreter. You can use
>   binmode() instead to get the desired behaviour.

Waaait a moment.

Why can't -C just call binmode itself?

This is getting stupider by the moment.

I've even tried this; it JustWorks:

 #!/usr/bin/perl
 BEGIN { exec $^X, "-COL", "-f", $0, @ARGV unless ${^UNICODE} }

 print "Hello w\xe9rld\n";

 $ ./test-unicode.pl 
 Hello wérld

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