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The binmode STDOUT, ':raw:encoding(UTF-8)'; is kinda close, but the count is off by 1. Adding 1 and it works. I am using Perl 5.22.1 if that helps.

Update: Now that I reviewed the numbers from counting line breaks and binmode STDOUT, ':raw:encoding(UTF-8)';. Counting line breaks will give you a much lager number, that is why it works. Where using binmode STDOUT, ':raw:encoding(UTF-8)'; and adding one to it. Then its just right.

What kind of portability issues will I face when using something like this on Linux?

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Re^6: Perl UTF-8 serving HTML5
by Anonymous Monk on May 29, 2016 at 23:02 UTC

    What kind of portability issues will I face when using something like this on Linux?

    linux/windows/banana its all the same

    count will always be wrong if you're counting characters, then afterwards doing conversion/encoding through binmode

    utf8 is variable length encoding, some characters encode as 1 byte, others as 3, so counting characters to know the number of bytes that will result will never work except by accident , when all the characters are basic ascii/latin text anyway

    Its like counting your chickens before the eggs hatch -- not all eggs will hatch, some will be twins, fox will eat four,

    only real solution is to encode before counting (get the bytes, hatch the eggs, then count chickens)

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