Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

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On 23/08/2013 16:40, Dave Cross wrote:
> In your original email, you said:
>
> "The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters when
> opened in Vim"
>
> A pound sign is a non-ASCII character.
>
> Dave...
>

By pound sign do you mean £ or #? I don't quite understand as both 
characters show up normally in code, ie. comments and currency.

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