The docs say about use utf8:
Do not use this pragma for anything else than telling Perl that your script is written in UTF-8.

It does not magically transform your arbitrarily encoded input into equally arbitrarily encoded output.

What we see here is Unicoded input (two byte wide), containing the bytes (in hex) C2 and A7. Upon output, somehow the unicode-ness of the characters was lost (we can only guess how that happened, as no code is provided) and we now see two characters, one being  (which is ASCII hex C2) and the other being § (which is ASCII hex A7).

use utf8 is unlikely to solve this problem.

CountZero

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In reply to Re^2: unknown character in between text by CountZero
in thread unknown character in between text by soumyapanda

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