note
quester
<p>You need to mark STDOUT as being in UTF-8. Either binmode ..., ":encoding(UTF-8)"; or the slightly cryptic perl -C2 option will work:</p>
<code>
$ perl -wE 'use utf8; binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"; print "ייייי ", length "ייייי", "\n";'
</code>
<p>prints</p>
<p>ייייי 5</p>
<code>
$ perl -C2 -wE 'use utf8; print "ייייי ", length "ייייי", "\n";'
</code>
<p>prints</p>
<p>ייייי 5</p>
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