When I go to
?abspart=1;part=1;displaytype=displaycode;node_id=11148406 and SaveAs, and open it in Notepad++, Notepad++ sees the encoding as "ANSI" (which on my system is "Windows-1252"); when I run that, it gives me "Malformed UTF-8 character" error, because it's the single byte 0x96 but the
use utf8 line has told the interpreter that the file should be interpreted as UTF-8... and UTF-8 doesn't have a single-byte 0x96. If I copy the contents manually from the browser, and instead paste into a new file in Notepad++ (which defaults to UTF-8 for me) and save it and run, it runs just fine. Alternatively, if I comment out
use utf8 on the downloaded version, it also works.
The problem is that the perlmonks website serves the pages as Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 (even though, technically, – is at codepoint 0x96 in Windows-1252, but not in ISO-8859-1, where 0x96 is a control character), so any bytes that get saved use that encoding; but saying use utf8 tells perl to interpret bytes in the source code as UTF-8 -- so it tries to interpret the ISO-8850-1 or Windows-1252 bytes as UTF-8, and fails on codepoints above 127.