P:\test>perl58 -le"$f=qq[test-\xf6\xf6\xf6-test]; print $f; open F,'>',$f; print F 'this is the file'; close F;"
test-÷÷÷-test

P:\test>dir test-*
 Volume in drive P is Winnt
 Volume Serial Number is D822-5AE5

 Directory of P:\test

02/09/03  14:26                     18 test-ööö-test
               1 File(s)             18 bytes
                          1,098,700,800 bytes free

P:\test>type test-*

test-ööö-test


this is the file

P:\test>

##</code><code>##

P:\test>perl -le"use utf8; $x = qq[öa]; print $x;"
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61, immediately after start byte 0xf6) at -e line 1.
 a

##</code><code>##


P:\test>perl -le"no utf8; $x = qq[öa]; print $x;"
÷a