Perl is not tossing away half the bytes; perl will store characters either as one byte per character (making the character 0x00A5 be represented as "\245" aka "\xa5"), or in utf8 form, with 1-13 bytes per character (with 0x00A5 represented in two characters, "\302\245"). What kind of storage is used is represented by the UTF8 flag, which you will see on after the utf8::upgrade and off prior to it.

If you have an output filehandle that you want to receive only the utf8 encoding, use binmode as suggested above or perl's -C switch (see perlrun).

In reply to Re^5: UTF8/Unicode Confusion by ysth
in thread UTF8/Unicode Confusion by jk2addict

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