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    # Perl assumes it's a Latin-1 string
> perl -MEncode -wle print+length(qq(\x{c3}\x{a4}))
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    # Perl gets told to decode the string from UTF-8
> perl -MEncode -wle print+length(decode('UTF-8',qq(\x{c3}\x{a4})))
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    # My terminal is Latin-1, which happens to match Perls default assumpt
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> perl -MEncode -wle print(length(decode('Latin-1',qq(ä))))
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