n is a string or array reference</b>. Perl strings of characters which are decoded as utf8 by Perl::Tidy can be returned in either of two possible states, decoded or encoded, and it is important that the calling program and Perl::Tidy are in agreement regarding the state to be returned. A flag <b>--encode-output-strings</b>, or simply <b>-eos</b>, was added in Perl::Tidy version 20220217 for this purpose.</p>

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<li><p>Use <b>-eos</b> if Perl::Tidy should encode any string which it decodes. This is the 