The version of the Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ is 2.200000. The output of the lines you provided are: 
SV = NULL(0x0) at 0xd9b5f0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = ()
SV = PVLV(0xda5d30) at 0xd7efd0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,GMG,SMG)
  IV = 0
  NV = 0
  PV = 0
  MAGIC = 0xdab340
    MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_defelem
    MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_defelem(y)
    MG_FLAGS = 0x02
      REFCOUNTED
    MG_OBJ = 0xd7eb98
    SV = PV(0xd7cb78) at 0xd7eb98
      REFCNT = 1
      FLAGS = (POK,pPOK)
      PV = 0xdab730 "body"\0
      CUR = 4
      LEN = 8
  TYPE = y
  TARGOFF = 0
  TARGLEN = 1
  TARG = 0xd7ed48
  SV = PVHV(0xd84f90) at 0xd7ed48
    REFCNT = 2
    FLAGS = (SHAREKEYS)
    ARRAY = 0x0
    KEYS = 0
    FILL = 0
    MAX = 7
    RITER = -1
    EITER = 0x0

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I also noticed that the publish method takes in props : content_type => $string and content_encoding => $string. Could it be that Net::RabbitMQ has default encoding UTF8 but Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ doesnt? And if so how can I specify so that it uses UTF8? What do you think?

In reply to Re^2: Malformed UTF-8 char when publishing in Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ by perl_help26
in thread Malformed UTF-8 char when publishing in Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ by perl_help26

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