from => qq{Ÿ},
to   => q{Ÿ},

##</code><code>##

000018c0  20 20 46 72 6f 6d 20 20  3d 3e 20 71 71 7b c2 9f  |  From  => qq{..|

##</code><code>##

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
my $teststring = qq{&#159;};
print "$teststring\n";

##</code><code>##

c3 82 c2 9f