What are common pitfalls or gotchas with printing Unicode on Windows?

Printing Unicode characters in Perl on Windows can lead to several common pitfalls. This guide highlights these issues and provides solutions to help you avoid them for smoother encoding and display.

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# Example of handling Unicode in Perl on Windows
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode;

# Set the output to UTF-8
binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';

my $unicode_string = "Hello, 世界"; # "Hello, World" in Chinese
print $unicode_string . "\n"; 
    

Unicode Perl Windows Encoding Printing Pitfalls Gotchas Text Output