I thought I knew about how to deal with UTF-8 characters but I can't seem to get things right. Program: 
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

show( 'Resume' );
show( 'Résumé' );

sub show {
  my $s = shift @_;
  print "The string is: '$s'\n\t";
  for ( split //, $s ){
    printf "%02X ", ord( $_ );
  }
  print "\n\n";

  my $t = uc( $s );
  print "\tUppercase: '$t'\n";
  $t = lc( $t );
  print "\tLowercase: '$t'\n";

  printf "\tlength = %d\n", length( $s );
  {
    use bytes;
    printf "\tbytes = %d\n", length( $s );
  }

  print "\n";
}

__END__

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Output: 
The string is: 'Resume'
        52 65 73 75 6D 65 

        Uppercase: 'RESUME'
        Lowercase: 'resume'
        length = 6
        bytes = 6

The string is: 'Résumé'
        52 C3 A9 73 75 6D C3 A9 

        Uppercase: 'RéSUMé'
        Lowercase: 'résumé'
        length = 8
        bytes = 8

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I needed to know the number of characters, the number of bytes, and how to convert to uppercase and lowercase. Version: 
$  perl -v

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In reply to Help with Accented Characters by shawnhcorey

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