Thank you guys for this thread. I just got an upgraded machine at work and started to get this error after installing the latest Eclipse/EPIC. I have found that either binmode($DB::OUT, ':raw'); or binmode($DB::OUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'); on line 123 of the new dumpvarepic.pm avoid the fatal warning while using the variables debug window to watch my variables. I'm not sure if the raw layer does anything different than standard binmode without specifying a layer. Based on what I've read in the various...