I am trying to output utf8 characters which correspond to the U+nnnn codes I have. I extract the nnnn and try to print the corresponding character using chr(), but sometimes it doesn't turn out right. I know that all of my code points are Characters, but look at this:

$var = 4628;
open $report, '>utf8','C:report.txt' or die;
print $report chr($var)."\x{4628}";
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This prints"ሔ䘨". The \x{} is correct and the chr() is not. Why are they different? And if chr() is not an option, is there a viable way to use a variable in the \x{}? It isn't possible to just put "\x{$foo}" and I have played with eval() for a while with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

Nate

Update:

Worked like a charm! Thanks everyone. Just needed to use chr(hex $foo) instead of chr($foo).