How can I display Extended ASCII Codes characters in Perl?

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How to display 192 character symbol ( └ ) in perl ?

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Daenyth picture Daenyth · Sep 20, 2010

What you want is to be able to print unicode, and the answer is in perldoc perluniintro.

You can use \x{nnnn} where n is the hex identifier, or you can do \N{...} with the name:

perl -E 'say "\x{2514}"; use charnames; say "\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT}"'

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