use strict; use warnings; use Encode qw( decode _utf8_on ); use Devel::Peek; my $bytes = "\x{C2}A"; { open(my $fh, '>:raw', 'temp') or die; print $fh $bytes; } { print STDERR "_utf8_on\n"; print STDERR "--------\n"; open(my $fh, '<:raw', 'temp') or die; _utf8_on(my $chars = <$fh>); Dump($chars); } print STDERR "\n"; { print STDERR "binmode ':utf8'\n"; print STDERR "---------------\n"; open(my $fh, '<:utf8', 'temp') or die; my $chars = <$fh>; Dump($chars); } print STDERR "\n"; { print STDERR "binmode ':encoding(utf8)'\n"; print STDERR "-------------------------\n"; open(my $fh, '<:encoding(utf8)', 'temp') or die; my $chars = <$fh>; Dump($chars); } print STDERR "\n"; { print STDERR "decode 'utf8'\n"; print STDERR "-------------\n"; my $chars = decode('utf8', $bytes); Dump($chars); } print STDERR "\n"; { print STDERR "decode 'utf-8'\n"; print STDERR "--------------\n"; my $chars = decode('utf-8', $bytes); Dump($chars); } unlink 'temp'; #### _utf8_on -------- SV = PV(0x226154) at 0x1853e20 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x18307d4 "\302A"\0Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x41, immediately after start byte 0xc2) in subroutine entry at 688773.pl line 19, <$fh> line 1. [UTF8 "\x{0}"] CUR = 2 LEN = 80 binmode ':utf8' --------------- utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unicode at 688773.pl line 28, <$fh> line 1. SV = PV(0x226154) at 0x18dcdc4 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x183083c "\302A"\0Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x41, immediately after start byte 0xc2) in subroutine entry at 688773.pl line 29, <$fh> line 1. [UTF8 "\x{0}"] CUR = 2 LEN = 80 binmode ':encoding(utf8)' ------------------------- utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unicode at 688773.pl line 38. SV = PV(0x22616c) at 0x18dce6c REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x18f2964 "\\xC2A"\0 [UTF8 "\\xC2A"] CUR = 5 LEN = 80 decode 'utf8' ------------- SV = PV(0x22616c) at 0x18dce9c REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x182d0cc "\357\277\275A"\0 [UTF8 "\x{fffd}A"] CUR = 4 LEN = 8 decode 'utf-8' -------------- SV = PV(0x18d1688) at 0x18dcefc REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x182ce5c "\357\277\275A"\0 [UTF8 "\x{fffd}A"] CUR = 4 LEN = 8