use Test::More; use Text::CharWidth qw(:all); my $string = " \x{8c61}\x{5f62}\x{6587}\x{5b57}\x{8c61}\x{5f62}\x{6587}\x{5b57} "; ok utf8::valid($string), "is valid utf8"; is length($string), 10, "There are 10 bytes"; is mbswidth($string), 18, "CharWidth of kanji"; done_testing; #### $ LC_ALL= prove -l -v t/simple_unicode_test.t t/simple_unicode_test.t .. ok 1 - is valid utf8 ok 2 - There are 10 bytes not ok 3 - CharWidth of kanji 1..3 # Failed test 'CharWidth of kanji' # at t/simple_unicode_test.t line 9. # got: '-22' # expected: '18' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 3. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) Failed 1/3 subtests Test Summary Report ------------------- t/simple_unicode_test.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 3 Failed: 1) Failed test: 3 Non-zero exit status: 1 Files=1, Tests=3, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.03 sys + 0.03 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.09 CPU) Result: FAIL #### $ perl -C63 -MDevel::Peek -Mutf8 -mText::CharWidth=mbswidth -le '$_="(\x{5fcd} Guimarães)"; Dump($_); print mbswidth($_);' SV = PV(0x8101064) at 0x8100118 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x814b740 "(\345\277\215 Guimar\303\243es)"\0 [UTF8 "(\x{5fcd} Guimar\x{e3}es)"] CUR = 16 LEN = 20 14 $ LC_ALL= perl -C63 -MDevel::Peek -Mutf8 -mText::CharWidth=mbswidth -le '$_="(\x{5fcd} Guiarães)"; Dump($_); print mbswidth($_);' SV = PV(0x8101064) at 0x8100118 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x814b740 "(\345\277\215 Guimar\303\243es)"\0 [UTF8 "(\x{5fcd} Guimar\x{e3}es)"] CUR = 16 LEN = 20 6