Thank you very much, Your Mother!
This works wonderfully, and it makes sense given the known cause of the encoding corruption.
use v5.16;
use utf8;
use open qw( :encoding(UTF-8) :std );
use Encode qw( encode decode );
while (my $damaged_text = <DATA>) {
chomp $damaged_text;
my $repaired_text = decode('UTF-8', encode('UCS-2LE', $damaged_text));
say $repaired_text;
}
close DATA;
exit 0;
__DATA__
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This prints…
Re: URGENT
Let’s go to 日本国!
…as expected.
In this case, use utf8 is required.
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