Dear Monks, I'm expecting the following code to simply lowercase Ü (using Perl 5.8.8):

use strict;
use warnings;
use locale;
use POSIX qw(locale_h);                                               
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binmode( STDOUT, ":utf8" );                                           
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my $loc = setlocale(LC_CTYPE);
print "LC_CTYPE=$loc\n";                                              
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my $accented_char = "\x{00dc}"; #Upper case U with DIAERESIS
print "accented char=$accented_char\n";                               
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my $lowercased = lc( $accented_char );                                
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print "lowercased=$lowercased\n";
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But it prints:

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
accented char=Ü
lowercased=Ü

Based on perldoc for lc, I believe this should work, but it doesn't. Interestingly, accepting the input on stdin (with character encoding set to UTF-8 in the terminal) lowercases Ü correctly:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode;                                                           
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binmode( STDIN,  ":utf8" );
binmode( STDOUT, ":utf8" );                                           
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while( my $char = <> ) {
  chomp $char;
  my $lc_char = lc( $char );
  print "lowercased $char=$lc_char\n";
}
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Any idea as to why the first script wouldn't work? Many thanks.

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