for some reason, encoding(UTF-8) doesn't work for globified scalars. Use utf8 instead.

diff --git a/Debbugs/Common.pm b/Debbugs/Common.pm
index 1331ac003cb8108a4b3f46b8564b334162f37e84..11c339bf6665ced76095684d01c8c147af5d5d9f 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:utf8', $scalar;
                    return $handle;
               }
               else {