Bug #118004 for Locale-Maketext: malformed utf-8 error

I found one issue with Locale::Maketext module as explained below Consider this as translated string msgid "Opens late (at %1)" msgstr "Öffnet spät (um %1)" So when I try to do maketext on this, i get this error Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in string ne at /usr/share/perl/5.14/Locale/Maketext.pm line 541. As a fix i changed this line https://metacpan.org/source/TODDR/Locale-Maketext-1.28/lib/Locale/Maketext.pm#L736 to elsif(do {my $x = $1; substr($x,0,1)} ne '~') { or to this elsif(substr("$1",0,1) ne '~') { then it works fine. Additional information: Perl Version: 5.14.2 Module Version: 1.28 I have attached the output.log as trace if you need it, attached below is snippet of it SV = PVMG(0x1ead340) at 0x1ed8600 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (GMG,SMG,pPOK,UTF8) IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0x58edf40 "\303\226ffnet sp\303\244t (um "\0 [UTF8 "\x{d6}ffnet sp\x{e4}t (um "] CUR = 18 LEN = 952 MAGIC = 0x39cb390 MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_utf8 MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_utf8(w) MG_LEN = -1 MG_PTR = 0x39c46f0 0: 1 -> 1 1: 0 -> 0 MAGIC = 0x1edf8b0 MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_sv MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_sv(\0) MG_OBJ = 0x1ed85e8 MG_LEN = 1 MG_PTR = 0x1edf4e0 "1" SV = PV(0x575c630) at 0x20710c8 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x3aac1e0 "\303"\0SV = PVMG(0x1ead340) at 0x1ed8600 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (GMG,SMG,pPOK,UTF8) The first dump is `$1`. That one is correct. It's a UTF8 string (`\303\244...`) and the UTF8 flag is set. The 2nd one is the `substr` result. It's value is only `\303`, one byte. But the UTF8 flag is set.