from the perlunicode manpage:
       "use utf8" still needed to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
As a compatibility measure, the "use utf8" pragma must be explicitly i
+ncluded to enable 
recognition of UTF-8 in the Perl scripts themselves (in string or regu
+lar expression literals, 
or in identifier names) on ASCII-based machines or to recognize UTF-EB
+CDIC on EBCDIC-based
machines. 
These are the only times when an explicit "use utf8" is needed.  See u
+tf8.

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Simply remove use utf8; from your script and you should get the output you desire :)

--Darren

Considered sauoq: swap pre for code

Unconsidered g0n: no pre tags in node. May have been removed by author

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in thread Non english characters by Ryszard

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