I was able to test on 5.8.7 (an old freebsd box), as well as 5.10.1 (linux) and 5.12.3 (macosx), and all three behaved the same -- including a problem in the output from Test::More::is() (I don't know why unicode characters get converted to "?").

Here's my "util.pm": 

use strict;
package util;

sub beautify {
    my ($in) = @_;
    my $tmp;
    foreach (split(/\s/o, lc($in))){
        $tmp .= ucfirst($_);
        $tmp .= ' ';
    }
    $tmp =~ s/\s$//;
    return($tmp);
}
1;

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Here's my test code: 
use utf8;
use util;
use Test::More tests => 4;

is( &util::beautify( "àisTheWord"), "Àistheword", "àisTheWord - specia
+l character changes case." );
is( &util::beautify( "ùisTheWord"), "Ùistheword", "ùisTheWord - specia
+l character changes case." );
is( &util::beautify( "üisTheWord"), "Üistheword", "üisTheWord - specia
+l character changes case." );
is( &util::beautify( "ÿisTheWord"), "Ÿistheword", "ÿisTheWord - specia
+l character changes case." );

print util::beautify( "ÿisTheWord") . "\n";

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And here's the output I got on all three versions: 
1..4
ok 1 - ?isTheWord - special character changes case.
ok 2 - ?isTheWord - special character changes case.
ok 3 - ?isTheWord - special character changes case.
ok 4 - ?isTheWord - special character changes case.
Ÿistheword

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(I put in that last print statement just to check that it would correctly show what was expected on a utf8-capable terminal. I also left out the "u with circumflex because for some reason I couldn't post its upper-case form correctly -- very strange.)

UPDATE: I should add that the command line I used was "perl -C31 test-util.t" (and it seems "-CS" would do the same thing.) Anyway, the tests do pass for me, despite the test message getting munged. So what are you doing that's different?

SECOND UPDATE: I added use Test::More::UTF8 as per mje's suggestion below, and that fixed the output messages -- thanks++!!

In reply to Re: UTF8 - ucfirst() is not working with foreign characters by graff
in thread UTF8 - ucfirst() is not working with foreign characters by tyatpi

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