Can't reproduce with my own build (default config) of Perl 5.10.0 on a Debian machine.
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i686-linux
...
$ xterm -v
XTerm(261)
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.
א
layers for STDERR: unix perlio utf8
א
I survived :-) !!!
I really did. I really did.
I'm dying :-(
Ah...dead
"א" represents some squiggle.
Some bug in xterm?