bunny:/tmp spiros$ perl test.pl Token: SV = PV(0x1801460) at 0x180bcf0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x30afc0 "ba\303\261o"\0 [UTF8 "ba\x{f1}o"] CUR = 5 LEN = 6 Term: SV = PV(0x1801484) at 0x180bce4 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK) PV = 0x300fa0 "ba\303\261o"\0 CUR = 5 LEN = 6 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x00, immediately after start byte 0xc3) in pattern match (m//) at test.pl line 17.