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in thread Malformed UTF-8 character

Thanks for your Inputs. I tried all the possible solutions.Unfortunately, I have not got the permanent fix for this issue. The issue is not stick to hyphen(-), my source code throwing error with all non ASCII characters when decoding input data which contains ASCII characters.

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Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x96, with no preceding start byte)
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 10, 2015 at 14:51 UTC
    Show the output of cat script.pl ; od -c script.pl, and explain what you mean by "doesn't work".