#use HTML::Entities;
use HTML::Entities"encode_entities_numeric";
$string="€";  # ("€"  expected out put result after encoding)
$encoded = encode_entities_numeric($string);

print $encoded;

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#use HTML::Entities;
use utf8 ; ###########
use HTML::Entities"encode_entities_numeric";
$string="€";  # ("&#x20AC;"  expected out put result after encoding)
$encoded = encode_entities_numeric($string);


print $encoded;