I don't recall off-hand why this warning matters (when I triggered the warning just now, the character still printed as intended). Look at the perlunicode and perluniintro man pages to get more info on this.

To avoid this warning, use the techniques described in the "PerlIO" man page, to open a file handle for ":utf8" i/o, or set the i/o protocol of an already-open file handle (like STDIN or STDOUT) to handle utf8 -- e.g.:

$_ = "\x{0411}\n"; # Cyrillic capital letter BE

binmode( STDOUT, ":utf8" );

print;  # Look, ma, no warning!
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Thank you :)! With help from another monk I was able to get the characters to print, but still got the message. Thank you for telling me where I can look for answers :). I had searched the man pages before, but I didn't know what to look for. Thanks :)!

Sorry about that :). OS: SuSE Linux; character: anything beyond the standers ISO charset; message: Character x is too wide; What do I think wrote the message: I have it narrowed down to either the Perl Interpreter or I do not have my computer comfigured properly and the shell is giving me the message; component to reinstall: unicode. I was hoping that by posting my message I could get some advice as to whether I'm writing my code incorrectly, or I have not configured my computer to work with unicode properly. I am in a situation where I need to write a script that uses characters that are not within the standard charset, and I assumed that, for my purposes, using unicode would be slightly more efficient that downloading a font with those characters and switching between the two :). Thanks for your help :), sorry I didn't have enough info :).

How are you entering the Unicode character? "use utf8" does not do much in 5.8; it indicates that the source is in Unicode.

It is much better to enter the character with the \xFEFF notation.

Thanks :)! It worked :)! I still get warnings, but it prints anyway :). I appreciate the help :). It was enough to print the characters I needed :).