Try searching the p5p list to find out http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse/perl5-porters?query=tr///U

update: hopefully. It had something to do with packing characters to unicode.

Here go some links

• tr///CU and tr///UC ^{( 1 )}

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