Porters,
One of the perl 5.8.0 users accidentally found this.
#
use strict;
use warnings;
$\ = "\n";
use encoding "utf8";
my $e = chr(0xE3).chr(0x81).chr(0x82);
print $e =~ /^\x{3042}$/ ? 'true' : 'false';
print chr(0xE3).chr(0x81).chr(0x82) =~ /^\x{3042}$/ ? 'true' : 'false';
__END__
This prints "false" for the first but "true" for the next one. U+3042
(HIRAGANA LETTER A) in UTF-8 is \xE3\x81\x82 so bytewise they may match
but the UTF8 flag for chr(0xE3).chr(0x81).chr(0x82) is off so it should
not match (regardless of use (utf8|bytes). So the first one is okay
but the second one is not.
my $name = "\x{5c0f}\x{98fc} \x{5f3e}"; # KOGAI, Dan