utf8 issue with substitution pattern

[Vorxion]

I don't know how to solve this. The program I have runs fine under plain
old perl. However, perl2exe makes it clear that I need to manually include
the utf8 stuff.

I'm forced to do:

use Encode::Unicode;
require "utf8_heavy.pl";
require "unicore/lib/SpacePer.pl";
require "unicore/To/Lower.pl";
require "unicore/To/Upper.pl";
require "unicore/To/Fold.pl";
require "unicore/lib/Digit.pl";
require "unicore/lib/Word.pl";
require utf8;
no utf8;

However, while the program runs fine under the interpreter directly, using
perl2exe results in the following not working, with a bunch of errors like:

Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0xffbc2000, byte 0x00, after start
byte 0xff) in substitution (s///) at /root/LightPage/LP line 627, <> line
202.
Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0xffbc2000, byte 0x00, after start
byte 0xff) in substitution (s///) at /root/LightPage/LP line 627, <> line
202.
etc...

My function is the following, and it's the substitution line that generates
those issues:

##### Strip binary characters.
sub strip_binary {
foreach my $one (@file_lines) {
$one =~ s/[\000-\037\177-\377]//g;
}
return;
}
#####

Can anyone tell me how to fix this issue? What's even stranger, the same
binary works fine on one linux system (Cobalt Linux) and -not- on RHEL3.

Any help is vastly appreciated... Thanks!

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