Still happens with:This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
(with 61 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) # printf "\x9c\x5a" | perl -CI -ne '/[^#]*/'Malformed UTF-8 character: \x9c (unexpected continuation byte 0x9c, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at -e line 1, <> line 1.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at -e line 1, <> line 1.
