#!/usr/bin/perl use utf8; use strict; use warnings; open (OUT, ">:utf8", '/dev/stdout') or die("Could not open file 'stdout' : error: $!\n"); print OUT "åäöfoo\n"; close(OUT); #### #!/usr/bin/perl use utf8; use strict; use warnings; open (OUT, ">:utf8", STDOUT) or die("Could not open file 'stdout' : error: $!\n"); print OUT "åäöfoo\n"; close(OUT);