#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use encoding "utf8";

use strict;
my $start=ord("a");
my $finish=ord("ö");
# use ord value to properly fill the list
my @a=($start..$finish);
for (@a ) {
    print  chr($_)," $_\n";
}
# show that list construct works fine without '..'
@a=("a","ö");
print "$_\n" foreach (@a);