karl$ perl -e 'print qq(Queensrÿche\n)' Queensrÿche #### #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; my $string = qq(Queensrÿche); print qq($string\n); my $y_with_trema = qq(\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS}); print qq($y_with_trema\n); $string = qq(Queensr) . $y_with_trema . qq(che); print qq($string\n); __END__ karls-mac-mini:monks karl$ ./roadster001.pl Queensrÿche ÿ Queensrÿche