How does AUTOLOAD and DESTROY interact with Unicode and encodings?

In Perl, AUTOLOAD and DESTROY are special methods that can interact with Unicode and encodings during object handling. AUTOLOAD is used for dynamically handling method calls, while DESTROY is invoked when an object is destroyed. When dealing with Unicode data, it’s essential to ensure that your data is correctly encoded and decoded to avoid issues related to string handling and method calls.

Here's an example demonstrating how AUTOLOAD and DESTROY can be implemented in a Perl package while handling Unicode strings:

package MyPackage; use strict; use warnings; use utf8; BEGIN { use Unicode::String qw(utf8); } sub AUTOLOAD { our $AUTOLOAD; my $method_name = $AUTOLOAD; $method_name =~ s/.*:://; # Remove package name print "Called $method_name\n"; } sub DESTROY { print "Object destroyed\n"; } sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = {}; bless $self, $class; return $self; }

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