This must be answered somewhere but SuperSearch didn't find it. I'm using use utf8 in my test program and the program won't compile; the error message is Malformed UTF-8 character: \xf0\x69\x20\x20 (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x69, immediately after start byte 0xf0; need 4 bytes, got 1) at wordy.pl line 6. Here's my simple program: 
#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use utf8;

my $veiđi     = "exciting";
my $efnisskrá = "repertoir";

use open IO => ':utf8';
print "in my $efnisskrá (efnisskrá) I like to go fishing ($veiđi)\n";

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In reply to Why does Perl choke on my UTF8 identifier? by Intrepid

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