Hi BrowserUK. Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. Here is a new test program:

use Win32::Console;

my $wc = Win32::Console->new(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
$wc->InputCP(65001);
say 'Paste stuff now.';

Char: while (1)
{
    my $char = $wc->InputChar(1);
    if (!defined $char)
    {
        say 'Read (undef)';
        next Char;
    }

    # "pretty" character, for display
    my $pch = $char =~ /[[:^print:]]/?  '?' : $char;

    # Deconstruct the character
    my @c = unpack 'C*', $char;
    say "Read: '$pch' = ", join ' - ', map sprintf('%02X',$_), @c;

    last if $char eq "\n";
}

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It didn't work. InputChar returns undef when I paste a unicode character. Here's the output of the program when I pasted "# “dog’s” leg":

Read: '#' = 23
Read: ' ' = 20
Read (undef)
Read: 'd' = 64
Read: 'o' = 6F
Read: 'g' = 67
Read (undef)
Read: 's' = 73
Read (undef)
Read: ' ' = 20
Read: 'l' = 6C
Read: 'e' = 65
Read: 'g' = 67
Read: '?' = 0D
Read: '?' = 0A

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The doco for InputChar says that it returns undef "on errors". But the module doesn't provide an interface to the Windows Console LastError function, so I can't see how to tell what error occurred.

Any suggestions?

In reply to Re^2: Unicode input for Win32::Console by Sue D. Nymme
in thread Unicode input for Win32::Console by Sue D. Nymme

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