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A different approach, useful for the standard filehandles, or perhaps filehandles created elsewhere, e.g. inside the Test::More module (which perhaps unfortunately, uses it's own newly created STDOUT and STDERR, so binmoding the existing ones doesn't do you any good).

In this example, we don't say ":encoding(UTF-8)", but rather ":utf8" which invokes perl's "lax" form that does no checking for malformed UTF-8. There's a school of thought that says this is appropriate for output (which has probably been checked already), but not for input, where it's actually a potential security hole.
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