It's not system-specific. I can replicate your results in Windows. 

>perl -l -CDS -e "print qq{\x{101}}"
[funky chars]

>perl -CDS test-noCDS.pl
[funky chars]

>perl test-withCDS.pl
Wide character in print at test-withCDS.pl line 2.
[funky chars]

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The fourth test has a different result, because it's the same as the third test in Windows. 

>test-withCDS.pl
Wide character in print at test-withCDS.pl line 2.
[funky chars]

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Could it be related to the script starting execution before the -CDS switch is encountered? In other words, maybe STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR have already been created by the time shebang -CDS is encountered.

In reply to Re: Bug in perl -C (Unicode) option parsing? by ikegami
in thread Bug in perl -C (Unicode) option parsing? by benizi

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