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I have ‘Malformed UTF-8 character’ error when I’m putting some scalar data in XML::Simple or Data::Dumper. There are regular expressions on the lines where the error occurs.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/perl5/XML/Simple.pm line 1690.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Data/Dumper.pm line 682.
At the moment I failed to reproduce the error with a small piece of code.
XML::Simple 2.18
Data::Dumper 2.124
perl v5.10.1
The problem arose because somewhere deep in the code of the application there was
Encode::_utf8_onwith a scalar, that wasn’t a proper UTF-8 string.