Facing the same issue as of 10/2002 I came upon your post. Then on comp.lang.perl.tk found the following post from Tk's author (hope such cross-posting is okay.)
Brig

From: Nick Ing-Simmons (nick@ing-simmons.net)
Subject: Win32 & Unicode
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.tk
Date: 2002-10-03 12:18:30 PST

Just to let you know Tk804.??? has just displayed its 1st widget on NT4/SP6 with perl5.8.0. There are still a pile of issues to work through but I hope I have broken the back of the Unicode port to Windows. A question for Sarathy (or anyone else that knows) - Win32's wide char is 16-bits - it is obviously "little endian" but is it UCS-2 or UTF-16 i.e. does it have surrogates or is Win32 limited to U+FFFF ?

Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

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In reply to Re: Unicode in Tk by ff
in thread Unicode in Tk by John M. Dlugosz

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