I don't know what is wrong with my locale setup. Neither uparse nor uchar work on my old perl 5.032001 on Debian 11. 

$ ./uparse.pl äöü

============================================================
String: '���'
============================================================
�	U+FFFD   REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
�	U+FFFD   REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
�	U+FFFD   REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
------------------------------------------------------------

$ ./uchar.pl -v äöü
� U0fffd \N{REPLACEMENT CHARACTER}
� U0fffd \N{REPLACEMENT CHARACTER}
� U0fffd \N{REPLACEMENT CHARACTER}

Removing decode from uparse.pl resolves the problem: 

$ ./uparse.pl äöü

============================================================
String: 'äöü'
============================================================
ä    U+E4     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
ö    U+F6     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
ü    U+FC     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
------------------------------------------------------------

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Greetings,
-jo

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In reply to Re: uparse - Parse Unicode strings by jo37
in thread uparse - Parse Unicode strings by kcott

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