Re^2: pack mangles utf output

Hmmm ... I converted the utf character to hex in both output lines and here's what I got:
without pack: e28093
with pack: c3a2c280c293

Could be my version of Perl (5.89) or my platform (Windows 7), but it is not working for me.

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Re^3: pack mangles utf output by vsespb (Chaplain) on Aug 28, 2013 at 15:50 UTC
Yep, perl-5.8.9 under Linux affected $ perlbrew exec --with perl-5.8.9 perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump pack 'A20', "FREIGHT – INTRASTATE"' perl-5.8.9 ========== SV = PV(0x1d14100) at 0x1d11350 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK) PV = 0x1d69870 "FREIGHT \342\200\223 INTRASTA"\0 CUR = 20 LEN = 32 $ perlbrew exec --with perl-5.10.0 perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump pack 'A20', "FREIGHT – INTRASTATE"' perl-5.10.0 ========== SV = PV(0x1773098) at 0x178e288 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x1798ca0 "FREIGHT \342\200\223 INTRASTATE"\0 UTF8 "FREIGHT \x{2013} INTRASTATE" CUR = 22 LEN = 32	[reply]

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Re^3: pack mangles utf output
by vsespb (Chaplain) on Aug 28, 2013 at 15:50 UTC

$ perlbrew exec --with perl-5.8.9 perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump pack 'A20', "FREIGHT – INTRASTATE"'
perl-5.8.9
==========
SV = PV(0x1d14100) at 0x1d11350
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x1d69870 "FREIGHT \342\200\223 INTRASTA"\0
  CUR = 20
  LEN = 32


$ perlbrew exec --with perl-5.10.0 perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump pack 'A20', "FREIGHT – INTRASTATE"'
perl-5.10.0
==========
SV = PV(0x1773098) at 0x178e288
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x1798ca0 "FREIGHT \342\200\223 INTRASTATE"\0 UTF8 "FREIGHT \x{2013} INTRASTATE"
  CUR = 22
  LEN = 32

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