> That, I am very grateful to report, solved that question. I guess the > scope of "use utf8;" is more narrow than I had thought.
When you have a bit of time, sitting down and reading through https://github.com/rgs/p5-intelligible-unicode <https://github.com/rgs/p5-intelligible-unicode> is a really good investment in reducing future frustrations when working with Unicode in Perl. chrs, john.