use utf8;
use Devel::Peek;

#$x="\x{00fc}";    #<-- not ok!!

#$x = "ü";        #<-- char above. ok

#$x="\x{0103}";    #<-- ok

#$x = "ă";        # char above. ok.

print Dump($x);

use bytes;
print length($x);
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