---
name: "Perl::Critic::Policy::TooMuchCode::ProhibitUnnecessaryUTF8Pragma"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libperl-critic-toomuchcode-perl"
version: "0.19-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Perl::Critic::Policy::TooMuchCode::ProhibitUnnecessaryUTF8Pragma"
---

# Perl::Critic::Policy::TooMuchCode::ProhibitUnnecessaryUTF8Pragma(3pm)

## NAME

TooMuchCode::ProhibitUnusedImport -- Find 'use utf8' statement that produces (almost) no effect.

## DESCRIPTION

The utf8 pragma is used to declare that the source code itself can be decoded by utf-8 encoding rule as a sequence of characters. What this means is that all the characters in the code are within the ASCII range.