Hello again, If I use this:
use open ':encoding(UTF-8)'; in my script, it crashes and makes a big fat core dump. :-( I think it is up to me to figure out the problem now, but if you have any suggestions, I'll be glad to hear them. Unfortunately, because this is not a high priority project I can work on it only for half and hour daily - that's the reason I'm replying so slow. Thanks, - Alex