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use encoding;
-first the environment variable C<PERL_ENCODING> will be consulted,
-and if that doesn't exist, ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) will be assumed.
+the environment variable C<PERL_ENCODING> will be consulted,
+but if that doesn't exist, the encoding pragma fails.
The C<Encode> module knows about many encodings and it has interfaces
for doing conversions between those encodings: