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How do you call the script? It seems you are feeding it with STDIN, which is not affected by use open IO. The following works for me (both in 5.16.2 and 5.10.1):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

binmode STDOUT, 'utf8';
binmode DATA, 'encoding(utf-8)';
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    s/[A-Za-z]//g;
    say $_, ' ', length;
}

__DATA__
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In reply to Re: length() miscounting UTF8 characters? by choroba
in thread length() miscounting UTF8 characters? by Anonymous Monk

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