You need to mark your output filehandle for unicode. Since you're printing to standard out, binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; does the trick.

You need to have some Indic fonts, else you just see replacement characters, for example boxes or question marks. sudo apt-get install indic-fonts

This is what I see. screenshot on imageshack.us

Next time on perlmonks, mind that we're an international community and as such speak standard English here. -> "Question" vs "Doubt"