character semantics 
$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e "Dump $f=chr(400) "
SV = PV(0x3e69ec) at 0x98a414
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x98419c "\306\220"\0 [UTF8 "\x{190}"]
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 4

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byte semantics 
$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " use bytes; Dump $f=chr(400) "
SV = PV(0x3e69f4) at 0x98a434
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x9841ac "\220"\0
  CUR = 1
  LEN = 4

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utf8::upgrade makes character semantics again 
$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " use bytes;  $f=chr(400); utf8::upgrade($f); 
+Dump $f "
SV = PV(0x3e6a0c) at 0x98a474
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x3ef4e4 "\302\220"\0 [UTF8 "\x{90}"]
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 3

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bytes

In reply to Re^3: Does the utf8::upgrade change the value? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Does the utf8::upgrade change the value? by Leo_Yao

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