> /appl/cpc/devel/bin/perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.1 built for PA-RISC2.0-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

> /appl/cpc/devel/bin/perl -e '$a = pack("C*", 0x7f..0x81); for ( $i = 0; $i < length($a); ++$i ) { print ord(substr($a, $i, 1)) . " " }; print "\n"'
127 128 129