my $lr = chr(636); my $ls = chr(383); $str = 'B'.$lr.'i'.$ls, if ($str eq param('Name') { ... #### PrintUnicodeString($str),br; PrintUnicodeString(param('Name')); PrintUnicodeString { join("", map { printf("\\x{%04X}", $_) # \x{...} } unpack("U*", $_[0])); # unpack Unicode characters }