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.

In reply to Re^3: Unicode again, in Win7 cmd by hdb
in thread Unicode again, in Win7 cmd by hdb

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