use strict; use warnings; use Encode; use utf8; binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; my $enc = "utf-8"; system( "chcp 65000" ); # from node http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=843144 my $ne = "\xe2\x95\xb1"; my $nw = "\xe2\x95\xb2"; print $ne, $nw, "\n";