f\303\266\303\266\n is UTF-8 encoded.
If it's a string of chars (the UTF-8 flag is set), you'll get UTF-8 when you print to a UTF-8 filehandle.
If it's a string of octets (the UTF-8 flag is clear), you'll get UTF-8 when you print to a raw filehandle.

f\x{f6}\x{f6}\n is iso-latin-1 encoded.
When you print to a UTF-8 filehandle, Perl will assume it's iso-latin-1 and convert it to UTF-8.
When you print to a raw filehandle, you'll get those exact octets.

In reply to Re^3: Reading in utf-8 txt file gives garbled data when printed as part of utf-8 html... by ikegami
in thread Reading in utf-8 txt file gives garbled data when printed as part of utf-8 html... by isync

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