Dear fellow monks!

I'm a bit lost with utf-8 conversion. For a FictionBook 2 eReader conversion script, I need to have "translations" for some UTF-8 characters to the appropriate eReader characters.

For this I used a part of the table found at eReader.com and stored it as a UTF8 file: 

¡    ¡     ¡     \a161     Inverted exclamation
¢     ¢     ¢     \a162     Cent sign
£     £     £     \a163     Pound sign
     :
     : skipped
     :
œ     œ     œ     \a156     Small combined oe
Ÿ     Ÿ     Ÿ     \a159     Large Y with diaeresis

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Next I wanted to prepend the first character with it's UTF-8 unicode 4 digit code by using a oneliner (splitted here for better readability): 

perl -i.bak -pe '\
    binmode STDIN,":utf8"; \
    binmode STDOUT,":utf8"; \
    if (/^([^[:ascii:]])/) { \
        $_= sprintf("%04x",ord $1).$_ \
    }' pml.txt

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Unfortunately I seem to miss something. I get data like this: 
00c2¡    ¡     ¡     \a161     Inverted exclamation
00c2¢     ¢     ¢     \a162     Cent sign
00c2£     £     £     \a163     Pound sign

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3 time 00c2 can't be true.

Do you see my mistake?

Update: Experimenting and reading perldoc perlrun, especially about -C led me to this version, which seems to work quite well: 

perl -i.bar -CDS -pe ' \
    if (/^([^[:ascii:]])/) { \
        $_= sprintf("%04x",ord $1).$_ \
    }' pml.txt

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Update2: No... It still doesn't work

s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
+.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

In reply to get UTF-8 character codes by Skeeve

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