I saved an UTF-8 encoded file with the following contents: 
리작
\xeb\xa6\xac\xec\x9e\x91

You can clearly see the lines are different. You can easily replace the codes with their corresponding bytes:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

chomp( my $korean = <> );
chomp( my $hex    = <> );

$hex =~ s/\\x(..)/chr hex $1/ge;

say $korean eq $hex ? 'Same' : 'Different';

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Or replace the encoded korean characters by their hex equivalents by 

$korean =~ s/(.)/'\\x' . sprintf '%x', ord $1/ge;

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If you need to work with UTF-8 encoded files, you should open them with the :encoding(UTF-8) layer. In such a case, you need to encode the string before further processing it: 

utf8::encode($korean);

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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re: Comparing string hex / korean by choroba
in thread Comparing string hex / korean by pax77

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