First things first, using print to output a generated character works fine: 

>perl -CS -le"print chr(0x2190)"
←

Even using with the parens you used 

>perl -CS -le"print qq{(\x{2190})}"
(←)

And if fed the UTF8 encoded character, it's understood.. 

>perl -CS -le"print chr(0x2190)" | perl -CS -le"use Devel::Peek; Dump($x=<>)"
SV = PV(0x226144) at 0x225ff4
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x182ce3c "\342\206\220\n"\0 [UTF8 "\x{2190}\n"]
  CUR = 4
  LEN = 80

However, I can't seem to paste the character into the console. 

>perl -CS -le"use Devel::Peek; Dump($x=<>)"
a←b
SV = PV(0x226144) at 0x225ff4
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = ()
  PV = 0x182ce3c ""\0     ← The whole line is dropped!!!
  CUR = 0
  LEN = 80

Alt-2190 doesn't work, but then again, it doesn't work in notepad either.

This was ActivePerl 5.8.8 on Windows XP

In reply to Re: Unicode input in windows xp (cmd.exe) by ikegami
in thread Unicode input in windows xp (cmd.exe) by nadroj

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