> Hm, what  platform and perl version....?

5.8.8 and 5.12.2 on RHEL, and 5.10.0 on OS X 10.6.

> c:\>perl -Mutf8 -wE
>    "say $^V,$^O;$_='123456789';s§3(456)7§$1§;say"
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa7,
>   with no preceding start byte) at -e line 1.

Not the same error as I got. This one looks to me like submitting 256-bit 
ASCII, where the section sign is A7, after telling the host you would be 
submitting UTF-8, where the section sign is C2A7. (Sorry if my terminology is 
wrong.)
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