Hi all I have a finicky little problem in a perl program I've written and have no idea how to go about solving it.
My program asks the user to enter text in either English or Simplified Chinese via a line that just says 
$response = <STDIN>;

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I have the following statements at the beginning of my program: 
use utf8;
use open ':encoding(utf8)';
binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8');
binmode(STDIN, ':utf8');

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(Do I really understand what these lines do? No. :)
Anyhow, just about everything works the way I want it to except for one little problem: if you type a Chinese character and then try to delete it again using the delete or backspace key, only half of it gets deleted.
Does anyone know a solution to this?
The platform is Mac OS X although I'd hoped my app would work on linux too.

In reply to Deleting Chinese characters while reading by alexharv074

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