I've got a few lines of perl (part of a larger script) which print two vars to a browser.

The script: 
 $string1 = "This is greek character 'y': μ";
 $string2 = "Hello \x{263A}!\n";
 print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";
 print "$string1 - $string2";

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The problem is: whenever if do a print of the 'y' alone: 
 $string1 = "This is greek character 'y': μ";
 print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";
 print "$string1 - $string2";

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it turns out OK in the browser.
But whenever just one wide utf-8 char is on that page, it breaks the 'y'! 
 $string1 = "This is greek character 'y': μ";
 $string2 = "Hello \x{263A}!\n";
 print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";
 print "$string1 - $string2";

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This prints the smiley, but the 'y' becomes 'μ '!! Any ideas? (mozilla still says the page is interpreted as utf-8).

Thanks!

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