I have been pulling my hair out for a few days on this. We have a Perl 5.6 system (yes, 5.8 would be much better but I am stuck with this for the moment).

We are using Frontier::Client (which uses LWP::UserAgent) to send utf-8 data to another system. My data _is_ utf-8, but when it hits the wire (using tcpdump) the 4 byte unicode characters are now 8 bytes and cannot be properly decoded on the receiving system.

The string I am handing to syswrite seems fine. The socket is, well, a socket. Syswrite returns the number of bytes I would expect to be sent. 'use bytes' is in scope. I can't think of any reason why this would be happening.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

In reply to Writing utf-8 to a socket with syswrite in perl 5.6 by Anonymous Monk

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