I used Data::Dump::dd to dump a large data structure which included unicode strings, but all is not well as the following program (play with it) demonstrates 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;
#~ use utf8; # no help
#~ use feature 'unicode_strings';  # no help

# turns off wide but CORRUPTS output
#~ binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';

binmode STDOUT; # wide character in print
print  qq!\x{FEFF}!; # print BOM
print "Foo \xE2\x80\x94 Bar";

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use utf8 is no help

use feature 'strings' is no help

using only binmode produces wide character in print

binmode UTF-8 corrupts the file

I do not want to iterate over my huge hash of hashes to Encode::decode('UTF-8')

I must be missing something, but what? How do I get unicode strings without manually calling decode, and print them, without lame warnings or corruption?

In reply to unicode strings without decoding or warnings or corruption by Anonymous Monk

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