Yes! That fixes the printing problem in my terminal. And this makes complete sense now. Thank you for clearing this up!

One problem remains that I still don't quite understand. 


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Encode;
use Text::Unaccent::PurePerl;

binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; 

use utf8;
my $string = "Queensr˙che";
no utf8;

chars($string);

(Encode::is_utf8($string))? print "this is utf8\n" : print "this is NO
+T utf8\n";

print "$string\n";

print "unaccented: " . Text::Unaccent::PurePerl::unac_string($string) 
+. "\n";

exit;

sub chars {

        my $k = shift;

        my @chars = split("",$k);

        foreach (@chars) {

                my $dec = ord($_);
                my $chr = chr(ord($_));
                my $q = qquote($_);

                print "\t$dec\t$chr\t$q\n";
        }
}


sub qquote {

        local($_) = shift;

        s/([\\\"\@\$])/\\$1/g;

        my $bytes; { use bytes; $bytes = length }

        s/([[:^ascii:]])/'\x{'.sprintf("%x",ord($1)).'}'/ge if $bytes 
+> length;

        return $_;

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Why does that produce, this: 

        81      Q       Q
        117     u       u
        101     e       e
        101     e       e
        110     n       n
        115     s       s
        114     r       r
        255     ˙       \x{ff}
        99      c       c
        104     h       h
        101     e       e
this is utf8
Queensr˙che
unaccented: Queensryche

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Is that actually valid utf-8? Shouldn't the ˙ be two bytes (decimal 195 191)? Like this: 
        81      Q       Q
        117     u       u
        101     e       e
        101     e       e
        110     n       n
        115     s       s
        114     r       r
        195     -       \x{c3}
        191     -       \x{bf}
        99      c       c
        104     h       h
        101     e       e

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In reply to Re^2: The Queensr˙che Situation by Rodster001
in thread The Queensr˙che Situation by Rodster001

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