I've run into a really strange UTF-8 problem with Net::Cassandra::Easy (which is built upon Net::Cassandra): UTF-8 strings written to Cassandra are garbled upon retrieval.

The following code shows the problem:

use strict;
use utf8;
use warnings;
use Net::Cassandra::Easy;

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

my $key = "some_key";
my $column = "some_column";
my $set_value = "\x{2603}";
my $cassandra = Net::Cassandra::Easy->new(keyspace => "Keyspace1", server => "localhost");
$cassandra->connect();
$cassandra->mutate([$key], family => "Standard1", insertions => { $column => $set_value });
my $result = $cassandra->get([$key], family => "Standard1", standard => 1);
my $get_value = $result->{$key}->{"Standard1"}->{$column};
if ($set_value eq $get_value) {
    # this is the path I want.
    print "OK: $set_value == $get_value\n";
} else {
    # this is the path I get.
    print "ERR: $set_value != $get_value\n";
}

When running the code above $set_value eq $get_value evaluates to false. What am I doing wrong?