#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use charnames ':full'; binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; my $a; $a = "/i/\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE}z/pl"; print qq(1: ),$a,qq(\n); ($a) = ($a =~ m/^([\/\p{Word}]+)/); print qq(2: ),$a,qq(\n); #### 1: /i/αινσϊz/pl 2: /i/αινσϊz/pl