Re^2: How to sanely handle unicode in perl?

in reply to Re: How to sanely handle unicode in perl?
in thread How to sanely handle unicode in perl?

That does not work. It has the same effect as commenting out the "use open" line. Try it in an UTF-8 terminal with LC_CTYPE set properly to utf-8. The print to STDOUT corrupts the character.

karoshi:~>LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ./u8demo.pl
I read a line, that is 1 chars long.
That line is: &#65533;
That line in ascii is: o
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