Re^2: How to make an ascii flower variable

I cut and pasted that code into emacs. Initially things looked good (the flower appeared to be a flower variable etc.). It didn't work when I ran it. How exactly is this working for you?

Code:
use utf8;

$✿ = "works for me?";

Output:

perl fleur.pl
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at fleur.pl line 
+3.
Unrecognized character \x9C; marked by <-- HERE after $\342<-- HERE ne
+ar column\
 2 at fleur.pl line 3.
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Re^3: How to make an ascii flower variable by anneli (Pilgrim) on Oct 19, 2011 at 05:38 UTC
Hmm, how odd! It ran without complaint or error at work; when I try it at home now, I get the same error as you (which is documented as being correct behaviour!). I'll have to try again at work tomorrow! ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: How to make an ascii flower variable by duelafn (Parson) on Oct 19, 2011 at 18:03 UTC
Of course, we can always put the flower in a vase: use utf8; no strict 'refs'; ${"✿"} = "works for me?"; say ${"✿"} Good Day, Dean	[reply]
Re^5: How to make an ascii flower variable by anneli (Pilgrim) on Oct 19, 2011 at 20:41 UTC
Well, I think this solution would please everyone, OP included!	[reply]
Re^4: How to make an ascii flower variable by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 19, 2011 at 11:49 UTC
This is probably related to perl bug #69032. If you read the history of that ticket, you can find that the behavior changed back and forth a bit, and still isn't quite sane. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re^5: How to make an ascii flower variable by anneli (Pilgrim) on Oct 19, 2011 at 20:41 UTC
Turns out I was just plain mistaken (though I did find your findings on this topic while Googling/searching PM); I had used a different character (that I knew the UTF-8 byte sequence for) to test with at work, which happened to actually work, but BLACK FLORETTE does not!	[reply]