I should see UTF8 values ... YAML::Syck does this

I don't see this from your example. YAML::Syck returns you two latin1 characters instead of a single \x{103} that the file contains, which is exactly the opposite to what you are saying you want. YAML::XS expects UTF-8 octets on input, and it checks that it is correct UTF-8, and it returns you UTF-8 characters. I have impression that you don't realise what you are getting from the modules, maybe you should use Dump from the Devel::Peek to inspect values instead of Dumper, also if you add 

use open ":utf8";
use open ":std";

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to your script, it will be clear to you, that YAML::Syck doesn't return ă, but ă.

In reply to Re^5: UTF8 with YAML or JSON by zwon
in thread UTF8 with YAML or JSON by SBECK

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