UTF8 support is currently pretty ugly and easily broken, research cleaning it up. 1: make sure tests covers all previous UTF8 bugs 2: remove all UTF8 options, encode, decode, etc, 3: try using http://search.cpan.org/~doherty/utf8-all-0.016/lib/utf8/all.pm.
*** Bug 1171670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***