Great thanks for your replies!

As i read the given article in german already, i didn't find anything new in the english version.

I played around with your snippets and updated my script: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
  use strict;
  use Tk;
  
  # use utf8; # <- makes everything even worse
  use Encode;
  my $enc = 'utf-8';
  
  my $umlauts = 'öäü';
  my $text = decode("utf-8", $umlauts);
 
  my $mw = MainWindow->new; 
  # scrambled string widgets
 $mw->Label(-text => encode($enc, $umlauts))->pack;
 $mw->Label(-text => decode($enc, $umlauts))->pack; 
 $mw->Label(-text => $umlauts)->pack;
 $mw->Label(-text => $text)->pack;
 $mw->Label(-text => encode("iso-8859-1", $umlauts))->pack;

 # the only one that creates shiny umlauts
 $mw->Label(-text => encode("iso-8859-1", $text))->pack;
 
 MainLoop;

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So now I am able to convert strings loaded from files. Great thanks so far!

But what about those umlauts typed into Entry or Text and compareable widgets?

> How "öäü" is represented will depend on your text editing environment.
How can I get information about this?

In reply to Re: umlauts in Tk widgets by Kardan
in thread umlauts in Tk widgets by Kardan

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