#!/usr/bin/perl use v5.12; use strict; use utf8; use Devel::Peek; my $trema = "\N{COMBINING DIAERESIS}"; binmode *STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; my $huette = "Hu${trema}tte"; Dump $huette; say "$huette\'s length: ". length($huette); #### SV = PV(0x25f4a58) at 0x25266b8 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x28da368 "Hu\314\210tte"\0 [UTF8 "Hu\x{308}tte"] CUR = 7 LEN = 10 Hütte's length: 6