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Created November 27, 2013 17:20
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utf8.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# Answer to http://mortoray.com/2013/11/27/the-string-type-is-broken/
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use v5.18;
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
my $text = 'noël';
say length $text;
my $txet = reverse $text;
say $txet;
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