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Aha! blaming the editor is correct. Your advice (Thank You!) was spot-on. I use vim too, and indeed, the fileencoding was set to iso-8859. I corrected that and ran the program successfully. I only feel a little under-educated. Effective Perl Programming should have had a note about editors and their codepages and how use utf8 won't dwim if the editor is saving the program text as something else ;-).

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Re^3: Why does Perl choke on my UTF8 identifier?
by bibliophile (Prior) on Mar 31, 2021 at 14:54 UTC

    Wishful thinking on my part... aren't we long overdue to have editors default to UTF-8?

    use OldMan::Yelling::AtClouds;

    -bib

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