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in reply to Re^4: how to output file in Unicode
in thread how to output file in Unicode

Try:

my $s = "\x{fc}"; say $s; say $s =~ s/\x{fc}/u/gr;

You can see common unicode points at: http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/diacritics.html amongst many other places on the web.