yes I realized it in the meantime.

I didn't expect it but \N{} is automatically activating the utf8 flag for the surrounding string. (which makes sense in hindsight)

use v5.12;
use warnings;
use Devel::Peek;
#use open OUT => qw{:encoding(UTF-8) :std};


my $t4 = "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}\n";
Dump $t4;
warn "t4: ",$t4;
__DATA__

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OUTPUT: 
SV = PV(0xe7ae08) at 0xd308f0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x2742188 "\303\245\n"\0 [UTF8 "\x{e5}\n"]
  CUR = 3
  LEN = 10
  COW_REFCNT = 1
t4: å

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^6: UTF8 Output with XML::Feed? (updated) by LanX
in thread UTF8 Output with XML::Feed? by mldvx4

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