Thanks! use UTF8 doesn't help, and I've added sample code to the original post...The output has an invisible character where the ASCII French character should be...

Hi, I hit a temporary glitch, then this started working for me. I don't know what to tell you. I suspect you have file encoding mismatches somewhere. When I download your code example, the œ dosn't show up in my editor or Tk. I then manually copy&pasted in œ from your html into the Tk program and it ran. Maybe some unicode guru knows the reason?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::TextUndo;
use utf8;

my $main = MainWindow->new;

my $middle = $main->Frame(-borderwidth=>2,-relief=>'groove')->grid(-ro
+w=>0,-column=>1,-sticky=>'nsew');

my $middlebox = $middle->TextUndo (
                      -font => 'arial 20',
                           -wrap => 'word',
                           -spacing2 => 10,
                           -spacing3 => 30,
                           -takefocus => 1,
                           -background => 'white',
                           -width => 70,
                           -height => 10,

                           )->grid(-row=>0, -column=>0, -sticky=>'nsew
+');

$middlebox->insert('end',"This is a test of the œ character\n");

print ord('œ'),"\n"; # prints 339
print chr(339),"\n"; 

$middlebox->insert('end', ord('œ') );
$middlebox->insert('end',"\n");
$middlebox->insert('end', chr(339) );

MainLoop;
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Well, you don't get utf from perlmonks, you get latin-1 or some such, and œ comes back as hex 9C

If you add use utf8; at the bottom of the program it won't display right :) you have to add it to the top

Very odd...I pasted your code in from the web, ran, and I get this output:

This is a test of the 0

œ
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...and the following errors in my command window...

Malformed UTF-8 error...(2 times, lines 24 and 26)
Wide character in print at....line 27
Malformed UTF-8 error...at line 29
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I'm wondering if this is getting down to different systems...I'm on Windows 7...