File-Slurp-9999.13 is marred by various bugs. Of these, the most egregious is the inability to reliably use UTF-8 due to its failure to honour the chosen I/O layer: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34444 I encountered this problem but all was well after upgrading to 9999.190.0. Being rather more steadfast of purpose, please consider stabilizing it.
arch teams please stablize
Stable for HPPA.
ia64 stable
amd64 stable
arm stable
alpha stable
sparc stable
ppc stable