I haven't gone further than the following, but googling with perl unicode map8 ppm leads to an alternative site of ppm's which seems to have something built on Aug 1, 2003. Elsewhere(?) I notice several ppm's that are built for 5.6

This is G o o g l e's cache of http://apache.hoxt.com/perl/win32-bin/ppmpackages/ as retrieved on Feb 26, 2006 09:28:24 GMT.