in reply to Matching/replacing a unicode character only works after decode()

Because this :) perlunitut: Unicode in Perl#I/O flow (the actual 5 minute tutorial)

The data may be stored as utf8 in database, but if perl doesn't know its utf8 when perl gets it from database, then perl doesn't know its utf8

so adjust your database fetching stuff :)

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