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Unfortunately, what you're seeing in my post isn't exactly what I'm seeing in real life. When using the <code> markup in my post, it changed the UTF8 character, and I couldn't figure out how to make the markup show exactly what I wanted it to show (i.e. what I'm seeing in the script and debugger). That has unfortunately served to confuse the question.
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Regardless of what's showing up in my post, my script contains actual UTF8 characters, and when I use the debugger to show exactly what is in the data structure after the Load function, YAML::Syck shows the exact same UTF8 characters that are contained in the __DATA__ section. All others modules produce strings containing perl encodings.
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Hope that clarifies things a bit.
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EDIT: I need to retract my above statement. I'm still trying to understand perl and unicode (which I definitely don't have a great understanding of). Although the posting markup issue is there, the comments you make are correct, and I was wrongly interpreting things. What I've been calling the "correct" behavior does indeed involve a string of length two (instead of one), so I've got to look into this in more detail to determine exactly what it is that I'm seeing and what I WANT to see.
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