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Perl seems to write the file in latin1 independent of the actual input encoding. This can corrupt the "description" field of /etc/passwd. By setting "binmode" to ":utf8" Perl can be forced to write UTF-8. Ideally the program would simply read/write the fields by value without any changes in encoding. However, assuming/enforcing UTF-8 is a lot better than using an obsolete coding like latin1.