use HTML::Entities; use strict; my $input = 'Не просто'; $input = decode_entities($input); # Sendmail stuff my %mail; $mail{'Content-type'} = 'text/plain; charset="utf-8"'; $mail{smtp} = 'smtp.mycompany.com'; $mail{From} = 'server@mycompany.com'; $mail{To} = 'me@mycompany.com'; $mail{Subject} = 'Sendmail Test'; $mail{Message} = $input; use Mail::Sendmail; Mail::Sendmail::sendmail(%mail) || print STDERR $Mail::Sendmail::error;