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> The file is being read in without issue. The problem is with the literals in the source file.
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> You explicitly stated you wanted different behaviour from the literal by using "use encoding".
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> perl -e'use encoding "utf8"; qr/[\x7F-\x80]'
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> means
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> perl -e'qr/{{{decode("utf8", "[\x7F-\x80]")}}}/'
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> which becomes
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> perl -e'qr/[\x7F-\x{FFFD}]/'
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> The effect of "use encoding" on \x escapes in literals and the like is why some people avoid "use encoding".
Thank you for this explanation.
So, is it possible for the source code (in a UTF-8 file) to use \x80 (or any numeric \x escape) to represent the character U+0080?
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