#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Unicode::Normalize qw{ normalize }; my $char = "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS}"; binmode *STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; print normalize($_, $char), ' ' for qw( D C ); #### 00000000: 75cc 8820 c3bc 20 u.. ..