Utf8

http://paranoid-engineering.blogspot.com/2008/05/getting-unicode-output-in-eclipse.html 1. add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to your eclipse.ini 2. make sure your Eclipse Console font supports Unicode. You can try it out by typing unicode characters directly to console with keyboard. Console Font is set in Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Debug -> Console Font 3. if you are NOT using Windows, set your system encoding to UTF-8. You should now see Unicode characters in Console after restarting Eclipse. ...

http://paranoid-engineering.blogspot.com/2008/05/getting-unicode-output-in-eclipse.html 1. add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to your eclipse.ini 2. make sure your Eclipse Console font supports Unicode. You can try it out by typing unicode characters directly to console with keyboard. Console Font is set in Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Debug -> Console Font 3. if you are NOT using Windows, set your system encoding to UTF-8. You should now see Unicode characters in Console after restarting Eclipse. ...

http://osdir.com/ml/lang.perl.xml/2005-03/msg00014.html reading in a UTF-16 encoded file and writing it out as a utf8 encoded

http://search.cpan.org/~taniguchi/URI-Escape-JavaScript-0.02/lib/URI/Escape/JavaScript.pm better URL/URI escape that URI::Escape

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=591180 encode( “UTF-8”, $possibly_bad_utf8_data );

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html 98% that YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!

http://ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html some tips on how to handle UTF8 in perl