"For what it's worth, the following appears to produce only a blank line."

Please go back and (re)read the utf8 documentation; paying particular attention to the very clear and emboldened directive:

Do not use this pragma for anything else than telling Perl that your script is written in UTF-8.

The code you presented only contains 7-bit ASCII characters.

You got what appeared to be a blank line. Here are some things you could have tried: 

$ perl -e 'print "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}\n";'
 

$ perl -e 'print "|\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}|\n";'
| |

$ perl -C -e 'print "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}\n";'
å

$ perl -e 'use open OUT => qw{:encoding(UTF-8) :std}; print "\N{LATIN 
+SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}\n";'
å

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See: perlrun for -C; and, the open pragma.

— Ken

In reply to Re^3: UTF8 Output with XML::Feed? (use utf8) by kcott
in thread UTF8 Output with XML::Feed? by mldvx4

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