utf8 by default

[infobot.git] / infobot

diff --git a/infobot b/infobot
index e0c1ad20d65ad887036212802e8f4a60e2b1078f..2c58f3921cb7e3d493e96eb1f357d711d0d2f279 100755 (executable)
--- a/infobot
+++ b/infobot
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ use vars qw($bot_base_dir $bot_src_dir $bot_misc_dir $bot_state_dir
   $bot_pid $memusage %param
 );
 
+# ancient Perl may not like these, but modern systems should have this
+use open ':utf8';
+use open ':std';
+
 BEGIN {
     if ( @ARGV and -f $ARGV[0] ) {