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That's not strange. You're seeing Unicode codepoints, which for the characters in question happen to be identical to their ISO-8859-1 encodings. Add "\N{EURO SIGN}" to the string and you get "\x{20ac}": That's again the codepoint and no UTF-8 encoding.

"Everything is UTF-8" is one of the most frequent false assumptions I encounter when dealing with non-ASCII characters.

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Re^7: UTF8 versus \w in pattern matching (basic test)
by jo37 (Curate) on Jul 06, 2021 at 18:03 UTC

    Thanks for the clarification.

    Greetings,
    -jo

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