$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i686-linux
...

$ xterm -v
XTerm(261)

##</code><code>##

SV = PV(0x8ea9040) at 0x8ebaf50
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x8eb6de8 "\327\220"\0 [UTF8 "\x{5d0}"]
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 4
layers for STDERR: unix perlio
Wide character in print at a.pl line 11.
&#1488;
layers for STDERR: unix perlio utf8
&#1488;
I survived :-) !!!
I really did. I really did.
I'm dying :-( 
Ah...dead