in reply to Unicode Case Conversion

try to use a regexp, lc and uc won't work .
perl -le '$bla = "é_to_upper"; $bla =~ s/é/É/g; print $bla ;'

Update:Zaxo is right:
perl -le 'my $e ="é"; utf8::upgrade($e); print uc $e;' #prints É
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