diff --git a/perl-5.8.8-U34297_C28006.patch b/perl-5.8.8-U34297_C28006.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..556cb66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-5.8.8-U34297_C28006.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+--- perl-5.8.8/pp.c.U34297_C28006	2006-07-13 12:40:37.000000000 -0400
++++ perl-5.8.8/pp.c	2006-07-13 13:03:19.000000000 -0400
+@@ -2949,7 +2949,22 @@
+     dSP; dTARGET;
+     SV *sv = TOPs;
+ 
+-    if (DO_UTF8(sv))
++    if (SvAMAGIC(sv)) {
++	/* For an overloaded scalar, we can't know in advance if it's going to
++	   be UTF-8 or not. Also, we can't call sv_len_utf8 as it likes to
++	   cache the length. Maybe that should be a documented feature of it.
++	*/
++	STRLEN len;
++	const char *const p = SvPV_const(sv, len);
++
++	if (DO_UTF8(sv)) {
++	    SETi(utf8_length((U8*)p, (U8*)p + len));
++	}
++	else
++	    SETi(len);
++
++    } 
++    else if (DO_UTF8(sv))
+ 	SETi(sv_len_utf8(sv));
+     else
+ 	SETi(sv_len(sv));