hi
i am using activestate perl 5.10 with perl/tk 804.027 on windows xp
in the following code (just a form with a menu and two submenus:
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings; 
use strict; 
use Tk; 
use utf8;
use encoding 'cp1256';
use Encode qw(encode decode);

my $mw = tkinit; 

my $menubar = $mw->Menu(-type => 'menubar'); 
$mw->configure(-menu => $menubar); 

my $text1 =  encode( 'utf8','ملف'); #arabic word for file
my $text2 =  encode( 'utf8','فتح'); # arabic word for open
my $text3 =  encode( 'utf8','تسجيل'); # arabic word for save

my $menu = $menubar->cascade(-label => $text1);
$menu->command(-label => $text2); 
$menu->command(-label => $text3); 

MainLoop; 
__END__

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the arabic letters in $text2 and $text3 are displayed correctly in arabic, while $text1 is displayed as unicode numbers and not arabic letters ie the label of the main menu is displayed as:
\x{0645}\x{0644}\x{0641}
what should i do?
why the label of a submenu displayed correctly as letters while the label of the main menu displayed as unicode numbers? thanks

In reply to Perl/TK unicode font problem by Anonymous Monk

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