#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Unicode::UCD 'charinfo'; # getting the unicode name of the character use utf8; # using non-ascii-characters in source code binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"; # printing non-ascii-characters to screen my @chars = map {ord} qw/A ö Ж € 𝄞/; # @chars contains the unicode points my $print_format = '%5s %-35s'; printf "$print_format %8s %s\n" , 'char', 'name', 'unicode', 'utf-8 encoding'; map{ my $name = charinfo($_)->{'name'}; # get unicode name printf "$print_format %06x " , chr, lc $name, $_; my $utf8 = chr; # single char (using implicit $_) utf8::encode($utf8); # inplace encoding into utf8 parts map{ # for each utf8 char print ord printf " %x", ord; } split //, $utf8; print "\n"; } @chars;