Need help with perl on win32

Hi group.

I've installed ActivePerl on win XP and I'm having some problems. I've
tried documentation at activestate but found nothing on this topic.

When a variable contains a non-english character (for ex. á [thats
á if you don't see it]) and the script prints that variable to
the screen, I get a lousy character, like if the cmd shell didn't
support this character. But I can type it directly in a shel prompt and
it shows ok.

I've tried playing with locale (use locale;) and perl uses
Spanish_Spain.1252 (es_es), so those character should print out. Windows
local is also set to spanish.

I tried "use utf8;", but I get a whole lot of warnings and instead of
wierd chars I get a blank space.

Anyone knows whats wrong?

Thanks for any help.

Reven