Hi, It's been a while since I've used Perl / Perlmonks and most useful knowledge has long since eroded its way through my skull and dribbled onto the floor.
I'm using Active Perl (perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for MSWin32-x64-muli-thread) and want to be able to output some unicode characters (specifically äöüß) so that I can automate some Imagemagick'ing.
At the DOS prompt i can type äöüß just fine (German keyboard) and can create things manually.
I 'assumed' something like the following would print out the same as seen in quotes, but it doesn't, it is replaced with other ASCII art. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use encoding 'utf8';

my $str = "abc123äöüß";
print $str;

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I read through...
http://perldoc.perl.org/perluniintro.html
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=930785
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=799088
..and have tried a number of the listed variants, but I'm missing something because nothing is working (I always get other characters).
Any hints at what I'm sure is a trivial problem would be appreciated.

Paul.

In reply to Outputting Unicode to DOS by thekestrel

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