> Can anybody explain?

use utf8 ! :)

Cheers Rolf
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Je suis Charlie!

update

Without utf8 flag you are forcing perl to transliterate a 2 byte character to a 1 byte character.

My interpretation is that this 1 byte char is doubled to keep the counters in sync.¹

update

same effect here 

use warnings;
use strict;
#use utf8;

$_ = '§|§';

print y/§/$/r, "\n";

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Careful with such experiments, I was able to make my Perl (5.14) coredump

update

¹) ikegami's explanation is better, you are transliterating the first and second byte for · separately to .

  DB<123> unpack 'H*','·'
 => "c2b7"

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Got confused about the tr flags and their defaults.

In reply to Re: y/·/./ gives two points instead of one by LanX
in thread y/·/./ gives two points instead of one by rsFalse

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