note ikegami <blockquote> <blockquote><p><i>I would expect $r->print to accept a string of bytes just like every other print.</i></blockquote> <p><i>The posted code shows that printing to STDOUT in a cmdline script gives the same result for both strings</i> </blockquote> <p>I followed up by saying you can instruct <c>print</c> to accept characters by telling it how to handle them. This is done on a per-handle basis, and that's what you did for <c>STDOUT</c> with <c> binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; </c> <p>You need to do something equivalent with mod_perl's object. <blockquote><p><i>the problem as I see it is that STDOUT under mod_perl2 lacks the utf8-awareness built through the rest of the perl I/O layer, with no way of enabling it.</i></blockquote> <p>Not knowing anything about the class except what you've told me, I agree. File a bug report. 814129 814134