You can use eval with FATAL warnings:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use open OUT => ':encoding(UTF-8)', ':std'; use warnings FATAL => 'utf8'; my $text = { string => "t\x{daed}\x{ffff}\x{daee}\x{c8}\n" }; 1 until eval { print $text->{string}; 1; } or do { my ($charcode) = $@ =~ /U\+(\S+)/ or die $@; print STDERR "Removing $charcode because of $@"; $text->{string} =~ s/\x{$charcode}//g; 0; # Try again! };

Update: handles both "non-character" and "surrogate" cases. I wasn't able to trigger the "non_unicode" warnings.

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In reply to Re: Unicode surrogate is illegal in UTF-8 by choroba
in thread Unicode surrogate is illegal in UTF-8 by Rodster001

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