That bit of code is broken and should be available in a newer version of Perl. The patch below resolved the problem.

Change 25363 by rgs@bloom on 2005/09/07 11:09:10

    The formatting function of Carp::Heavy has problem with utf8 strin
+gs.
    Work around it.

Affected files ...

... //depot/perl/lib/Carp/Heavy.pm#24 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/perl/lib/Carp/Heavy.pm#24 (text) ====

@@ -116,9 +116,10 @@
   $arg = "'$arg'" unless $arg =~ /^-?[\d.]+\z/;
 
   # The following handling of "control chars" is direct from
-  # the original code - I think it is broken on Unicode though.
+  # the original code - it is broken on Unicode though.
   # Suggestions?
-  $arg =~ s/([[:cntrl:]]|[[:^ascii:]])/sprintf("\\x{%x}",ord($1))/eg;
+  utf8::is_utf8($arg)
+    or $arg =~ s/([[:cntrl:]]|[[:^ascii:]])/sprintf("\\x{%x}",ord($1)
+)/eg;
   return $arg;
 }

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In reply to Re: Carp::Heavy panic: malloc Unicode? by Steve_p
in thread Carp::Heavy panic: malloc Unicode? by Dave Howorth

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