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use Encode; use Devel::Peek; ... $str = encode("shiftjis", $str); Dump $str; printf "=> is%s alphabetic\n\n", $str =~ /\p{IsAlpha}/ ? "":"n't";
U+5F4C as a regular Perl character string (UTF-8 flag on): SV = PV(0x629098) at 0x645530 ... CUR = 2 LEN = 8 => isn't alphabetic