in reply to Re^2: Special character not being captured
in thread Special character not being captured

Because Windows-1252 encodes Æ the same way as your terminal (or browser) was configured to (e.g. Latin-1 or Windows-1252).

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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