What would I have to do to be able to use "s\x{c3}\x{bc}\x{c3}\x{9f}e" as though it were "s\xc3\xbc\xc3\x9fe" ?

I'm not sure what else is going on, but those strings are equivalent. 

perl -MO=Deparse -e 'print "s\xc3\xbc\xc3\x9fe"'
perl -MO=Deparse -e 'print "s\x{c3}\x{bc}\x{c3}\x{9f}e"'

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Both parse the same: 
print "s\303\274\303\237e";
-e syntax OK

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I wonder if you have standard output encoded correctly. Maybe adding this will help. 
binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';

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In reply to Re^3: Encode double encoding? by farang
in thread Encode double encoding? by DrkShadow

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