When addressing portability issues, it is usually an idea to check the value of $^O, which translates to $OSNAME if you use English. You can also get the terminal width using Term::Readkey and call the method GetTerminalSize. Note also that windows counts the characters and wraps irrespective of whether the characters are even visible. 

use Term::ReadKey;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );

sub Print {
    if ( $OSNAME =~ /^MSWin/)
        my ($wchar, $hchar, $wpixels, $hpixels) = GetTerminalSize());
        # nb in this case, in above only need the first var
        # but keep the brackets
        for my $chunk (@_) {
            chomp $chunk;
            for my $line (split /\n/, $chunk) {
                print $line . (length($line) == $wchar ? '' : "\n");
            }
        }
    }
    else {
        print @_;
    }
}

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