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in thread unicode strings without decoding or warnings or corruption

OK--you lost me there. Why can't you use decode? Using your first snippet, I got: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict; 
use warnings;
use Encode;
require Encode::Detect;

my $data = "Foo \xE2\x80\x94 Bar";
my $utf8 = decode("Detect", $data);
binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)";
print $utf8;

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What's lame about that?

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Re^5: unicode strings without decoding or warnings or corruption
by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2012 at 04:39 UTC

    OK--you lost me there...

    Lost you? Try reading what I posted, stuff like like "large data structure" and "I thought I would have to write something from scratch "

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