use v5.12; use warnings; use Devel::Peek; #use open OUT => qw{:encoding(UTF-8) :std}; my $t4 = "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}\n"; Dump $t4; warn "t4: ",$t4; __DATA__ #### SV = PV(0xe7ae08) at 0xd308f0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x2742188 "\303\245\n"\0 [UTF8 "\x{e5}\n"] CUR = 3 LEN = 10 COW_REFCNT = 1 t4: å