The bug exists with use utf8 too.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Encode         qw( encode          );
use HTML::Entities qw( decode_entities );

# This eval should have no effect on subsequent evals.
eval encode('utf-8', decode_entities(
   'use utf8; my $var_with_♥_non_word;'
));

my $string = 'abc';
eval '$string = "def"; 1' or die;
if ($string ne 'def') {
   print("BUG! string should be 'def' but is '$string'\n");
} else {
   print("No bug\n");
}
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BUG! string should be 'def' but is 'abc'
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