Greetings. The following code should show the output "=マリウス" but shows "=xn--caaba8k0b0a7jzpccc.com" instead. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use utf8;
use URI;
use Encode;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $href="https://\x{30de}\x{30ea}\x{30a6}\x{30b9}.com/";
print $href,"\n";

my $uri = URI->new($href);

my $domain = $uri->host;

print ":",$domain,"\n";

$domain = Encode::decode('utf-8', $domain);
print "=",$domain,"\n";

$domain = Encode::encode('utf-8', $domain);
print ".",$domain,"\n";

exit(0);

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What is a good way to get the variable $domain to contain "マリウス" as UTF-8? I've tried Encode::encode and Encode::decode in several permutations but that is probably not the right way. Is there some way to wrap the URI function in such a way as to have it process Unicode?

ps. This web form has trouble with the Japanese as well and has converted the string to a bunch of HTML entities.

Edit: added use utf8; and redid $href definition.

In reply to CPAN's URI.pm versus Japanese as Unicode? by mldvx4

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