Perl’s -e ignores the internal UTF8 flag. (See <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77242>.)
LWP::Protocol::file triggers this bug in this piece of code:
# test file exists and is readable
unless (-e $path) {
return new HTTP::Response &HTTP::Status::RC_NOT_FOUND,
"File `$path' does not exist";
}
If you add
$path =~ /[^\0-\xff]/ or utf8::downgrade($path); # work around perl bug
#77242
before the ‘unless’ statement, it works.
