in reply to Unicode problem

Make sure that you have the encoding you are looking for: 

  use Encode;
  print join ('\n', Encode->encodings());

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You might also want to check the value of:

  is_utf8($_);

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Finally, it cannot hurt anything but performance to do:

  $uni = encode_utf8($_);

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