UTF-8 warnings

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am getting these warnings while running the script. Can any body tell me how to solve them and are they fatal?

Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0xb2823d47, byte 0xe7, after st
+art byte 0xbf) in pattern match (m//) at CCSearchX2_2_2_5_2.pl line 6
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while($text =~  /(.?B\d{13,19}\^[\w \/]{2,26}\^[\w\?;=]+\??|.?\d{13,19
+}[D=]\w+\??|(?<!\d)\d{3}[\d\- $seperators]{7,14}\d{3}(?!\d))/g)
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Re: UTF-8 warnings by toolic (Bishop) on Mar 13, 2012 at 14:52 UTC
Search for "Malformed UTF-8 character" in perldoc perldiag. diagnostics is also handy.	[reply]
Re: UTF-8 warnings by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 13, 2012 at 21:47 UTC
The problem is that `$text` is internally invalid because something told Perl a buffer contained UTF-8 when it didn't.	[reply] [d/l]

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