use Win32::Console; binmode(STDOUT, ":unix:utf8"); Win32::Console::OutputCP( 65001 ); $line1 = "\x{2554}".("\x{2550}"x15)."\x{2557}\n"; $line2 = "\x{2551}".(" "x15)."\x{2551}\n"; $line3 = "\x{255A}".("\x{2550}"x15)."\x{255D}"; $unicode_string = $line1.$line2.$line3; print "THIS IS THE CORRECT EXAMPLE OUTPUT IN PURE PERL: \n"; print $unicode_string;