#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use encoding 'UTF-8';
#use encoding 'utf8';
#use utf8;

use Devel::Peek qw( Dump );

my $word = "État";  # UTF-8 encoding of "État"
my $char = "É";     # UTF-8 encoding of "É"

Dump($word);
print("String Length: ", length($word), "\n");
print("\n");

Dump($char);
print("String Length: ", length($char), "\n");
print("\n");

if ($word =~ /$char/) {
   print "Matches\n";
} else {
   print "Does not match\n";
}

if ($word =~ /\Q$char/) {
   print "Matches\n";
} else {
   print "Does not match\n";
}

if (substr($word, 0, 1) eq $char) {
   print "Equal\n";
} else {
   print "Not equal\n";
}