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$ cat bug.pl
use encoding 'utf8';
my $x = "\x{ff}";
use Devel::Peek;
Dump($x);
$ perl -w bug.pl
SV = PV(0x801038) at 0x80f5c0
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
PV = 0x201cb0 "\357\277\275"\0 [UTF8 "\x{fffd}"]
CUR = 3
LEN = 4
$
The \x{fffd} is the Unicode "lost in translation" character,
in case people are wondering.
I don't think it makes much sense
for "use encoding 'utf8'" to break the "Latin-1 range" of 0x80-0xff
like this? Note that there is no literal UTF-8 anywhere, only the
\x notation. (The {} in the \x{ff} make no difference whether one
has them or if one does just \xff, the {} just make it easier to
try e.g. \x{fff} and see how Things Should Work.)
Seems to happen both with 5.8.8 and 5.10.0, don't have a blead
or a maint conveniently compiled.
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