Thanks so much for the suggestion. I tried that, with my test code, and now it says "This is a test of the ? character", with the ? in a black diamond...!

If I add "use UTF-8" at the top, I get an error when it hits that character saying "Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x9c, with no preceding start byte) at..."

Finally, if I paste in the character from the Perlmonks page to my editor (komodo), it doesn't fix it for me...

Would love to hear any other thoughts!

use Encode;
use Tk;
use Tk::TextUndo;
my $main = MainWindow->new;

my $string = decode ('utf8', "This is a test of the œ character");

my $middle = $main->Frame(-borderwidth=>2,-relief=>'groove')->grid(-ro
+w=>0,-column=>1,-sticky=>'nsew');
my $middlebox = $middle->Text (
               -font => 'system 10',
                           -wrap => 'word',
                           -spacing2 => 10,
                           -spacing3 => 30,
                           -takefocus => 1,
                           -background => 'white',

                           -width => 70,
                           -height => 10,

                           )->grid(-row=>0, -column=>0, -sticky=>'nsew
+');#pack(-expand => 1, -fill => 'both');#;


$middlebox->insert('end',"$string");

MainLoop;
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