even if I am not quite sure why. As my file is encoded in UTF8, how am I supposed to open it correctly and read it?

What output does this program produce for you? After being packed with pp? 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd pp /;

open my($fh),'<:encoding(UTF-8)', 'deleteme.txt' or die $!;
my $file = <$fh>;
close $fh;

my $dsn = "dbi:SQLite:dbname=$file";

# extract dbi:driver prefix from $dsn into $1
$dsn =~ s/^dbi:(\w*?)(?:\((.*?)\))?://i
     or '' =~ /()/; # ensure $1 etc are empty if match fails

my $driver_attrib_spec = $2 || '';

# Set $driver. Old style driver, if specified, overrides new dsn style
+.
my $driver = $1 
       or die pp(  $file, $dsn, [ $1, $2  ] );

dd(  $file, $dsn, [ $1, $2  ] );

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In reply to Re^5: Can't connect to data source 'DBI:SQLite:\C:\Users\DON\Desktop\data.db by Anonymous Monk
in thread pp concatenate path by IB2017

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