I don't have a lot of experience in this area, but I see that no one else has answered, so I'll take a swing at it.

First, you should probably post a small snippet of the code that fails so that we can actually see what's going on. It's tough to debug invisible code. Second, it may be the case that your Perl script simply needs to have the locale set. Further, I pulled this snippet from the Perl Cookbook, so if you have a copy, see page 188.

use locale;
use POSIX 'locale_h';
setlocale( LC_CTYPE, 'hebrew.ISO_8859_8_i');
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Actually, I'm sure the locale information in the last line is not correct. You'll have to look up how to set it on your system. See locale and perllocale for more information.

Cheers,
Ovid

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