* Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>, 2020-05-05, 08:45:
Strangely, replacing -CS with a call to STDIN->binmode("UTF-8") doesn't help: echo 包 | perl -E 'STDIN->binmode("UTF-8"); while(<>) { s|\s+\n|\n|sg; print }' �
That's because "UTF-8" is not a valid argument for binmode(). You want: $ echo 包 | perl -E 'STDIN->binmode(":encoding(UTF-8)") or die; while(<>) { s|\s+\n|\n|sg; print }' Wide character in print at -e line 1, <> line 1. 包 or: $ echo 包 | perl -E 'STDIN->binmode(":utf8") or die; while(<>) { s|\s+\n|\n|sg; print }' Wide character in print at -e line 1, <> line 1. 包 -- Jakub Wilk