use Test::More *; is(b"\xa4\xdb\xa4\xb2\xa4\xdb\xa4\xb2", b"\244\333\244\262\244\333\244\262"); is(b"\xa4\xdb\xa4\xb2\xa4\xdb\xa4\xb2".decode('euc-jp'), 'ほげほげ'); done_testing();