#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; my $string = 'jean-fran\xe7ois chr\xe9tien'; $string =~ s/\\x(..)/chr hex $1/ge; binmode STDOUT, 'encoding(UTF-8)'; say $string; #### ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,