What timing! Are you in on that bug system? I believe 'die' needs the same fix.

This code from the bug report:

perl -we '$a="\xee\n"; print STDERR $a; warn $a; utf8::upgrade($a); pr
+int STDERR $a; warn $a'
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gives the same results as this:

perl -we '$a="\xee\n"; print STDERR $a; die $a;' 
perl -we '$a="\xee\n"; utf8::upgrade($a); print STDERR $a; die $a'
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Thanks!

I don't know if it was fixed by the same patches or by different patches, but die() will warn too in 5.14.

$ ./perl -v
This is perl 5, version 13, subversion 4 (v5.13.4-312-g6e4e365) built 
+for i686-linux
...

$ ./perl -e'warn chr 300'
Wide character in warn at -e line 1.
Ĭ at -e line 1.

$ ./perl -e'die chr 300'
Wide character in die at -e line 1.
Ĭ at -e line 1.
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