Hi, I'm currently being forced to use perl (5.00503) on a FreeBSD machine with only the default modules installed. They admins are also not willing to install any modules. The problem is that I have to use a CGI script to accept and process chinese characters. 
$chinese_character_num = "12551";
$chinese_character = chr($chinese_character_num);
print $chinese_character;

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This returns a weird block-like character( ) which I assume means it doesn't know which character to give it. I have assume (again, I'm sorry) that the problem is the machine isn't using the unicode set, and isn't loading utf8 on demand. So, I then took the utf8 module and its required companion (utf8_heavy.pl) and threw them into the directory, and included them as follows: 
use utf8 qw(-l ./);

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Suprisingly, this ran without any errors, but when it tried the same code as before, I got the same result. I have tried this whole mess on my own server, with perl 5.6.1, and it works just like its designed to. Does anyone know what I can do to make it work on the FreeBSD server?

In reply to Weird UTF stuff in FreeBSD by Tanaka

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