in reply to Re^4: Special character not being captured
in thread Special character not being captured

It might be the terminal who changes the character into the replacement one: 
$ perl -wE '%h = ("\xc3" => 1); say $_, ord for keys %h'

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

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