Hi,
I seemingly miss something obvious, but reading File::Slurp manpage does not give me an idea.

Following piece of code dies and I do not have my content in file "a.txt" (it has zero size): 

use utf8;
use File::Slurp;
use Encode;

my $ustr = "simple unicode string \x{0434} indeed";
#Encode::_utf8_off($ustr);  # ???? why do I need this?

File::Slurp::write_file("a.txt", {binmode=>':utf8'}, $ustr);

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Error message I get is: Wide character in syswrite at d:/perl5121/site/lib/File/Slurp.pm line 330. Notice the commented out Encode::_utf8_off($ustr); line.

If I uncomment this line, i.e. if I "reset" $ustr to be *not* utf8, all is good.

So, File::Slurp refuses to write scalar having UTF8, despite of fact that I specified {binmode=>':utf8'}, like manpage recommends

What I am doing wrong?

In reply to can not use utf8 with File::Slurp by vkon

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