use utf8;
use Data::Dumper;
use Encode;

open(my $f ,">:encoding(utf-8)", "C:/tmp/utf8.txt");
binmode $f,':encoding(utf-8)';
print $f "Log Started \n ";
END{ close($f); };

my $str = '原來' print $f $str."\n";
print $f Dumper( $str );
print "\n";
print $f decode_utf8( Dumper( encode_utf8( $str ) );

The output is

Log Started
原 來 
 $VAR1 = [
          "\x{539f}\x{4f86}"
        ];

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$VAR1 = '原來';

My question is how do i get Data::Dumper to handle utf8 strings and not produce ISO-latin-1 encoded utf-8 characters like x{....} ps: forgive my formatting . Cant get perlmonks.org to handle utf-8 very well either :-)

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