perl -e"print qq(\xe4)" #### perl -MDOS::Try -e"print qq(\xe4)" #### use strict; use warnings; use $result; $result = `perl -MDOS::Try -e"print qq(\xe4)"`; print $result; #### package DOS::Try; use strict; use warnings; open(my $oldout, ">&STDOUT") or die "Can't dup STDOUT: $!"; close STDOUT; open(STDOUT, ">&:encoding(Cp437)", $oldout) or die "Can't dup \$oldout: $!"; 1