actually; scalars shouldn't encode anyway. Not sure what I was thinking.

diff --git a/Debbugs/Common.pm b/Debbugs/Common.pm
index 1331ac003cb8108a4b3f46b8564b334162f37e84..4595433a04b01d363f7d1978dc3e22b46db5245f 100644 (file)
--- a/Debbugs/Common.pm
+++ b/Debbugs/Common.pm
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ sub globify_scalar {
          if (defined ref($scalar)) {
               if (ref($scalar) eq 'SCALAR' and
                   not UNIVERSAL::isa($scalar,'GLOB')) {
-                   open $handle, '>:scalar:encoding(UTF-8)', $scalar;
+                   open $handle, '>:scalar', $scalar;
                    return $handle;
               }
               else {