use warnings; use strict; use feature 'say'; use Unicode::String qw(utf8 latin1 utf16le); use Data::Translate; my $d = Data::Translate->new; my $x = "René"; say length($x); # 5 say $d -> a2h($x); # 152656ec3a9 my $l1 = latin1($x); say $d -> a2h($l1);