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in thread attempting to achieve something

use utf8; tells Perl that the source code is written in UTF-8. If you want to read from an input file, you need to specify the input layer, either using 
open my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $filename or die $!;

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or using the open pragma: 
use open IO => ':encoding(UTF-8)';

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

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