$ file -i utf8.pl utf8.pl: text/x-perl; charset=utf-8 $ perl utf8.pl utf8 "\xE2" does not map to Unicode at utf8.pl line 11, chunk 1. utf8 "\xAC" does not map to Unicode at utf8.pl line 11, chunk 2. utf8 "\x82" does not map to Unicode at utf8.pl line 11, chunk 3. utf8 "\xE2" does not map to Unicode at utf8.pl line 11, chunk 4. utf8 "\xAC" does not map to Unicode at utf8.pl line 11, chunk 5. $VAR1 = [ "\x{2080}", "\x{c880}\x{2000}", "\x{ac}\x{c000}", "\x{2080}", "\x{c280} " ]; $ perl -v This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-linux-thread-multi