in reply to Unicode again, in Win7 cmd

The characters are encoded in bytes. Therefore, the terminal should be set to utf-8, but the STDOUT should not. Remove the binmode. (You can safely remove use utf8 and use Encode, too. There is no unicode character in the code for the first one.)
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Re: Unicode again, in Win7 cmd
by hdb (Monsignor) on Jun 07, 2013 at 11:31 UTC

    Without binmode I get "╱╲" instead of "╱╲".

    Sorry: was meant as reply to choroba.

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      Nice. On my utf-8 terminal:
      echo ╱╲ | iconv -f utf8 -t cp1252
╱╲
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        Now this works (prints black spade suit): 

        system( "chcp 65001" );
print "\xe2\x99\xa0\n";

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        It seems that the font I am using "Lucida Console" (and the other fonts offered in "Properties") just has no entries for the diagonals :-<

        A quick look into the "Character Map" tool confirms this. All this time wasted...

        Thanks for all your replies. From here I guess I need to find out which fonts have the diagonals and how can I get cmd.exe to use one of them. But this is not a Perl question.

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