Print Spanish characters in Perl?

This is probably has a simple answer, but it isn't in my Perl books and I
have been trying to google it up using a dialup line locked down by the
telephone company to 20k bps. (And they don't offer what they call
broadband. i.e 56k)

Anyway, after a couple of hours of surfing through a very small part of
about 5 zillion hits for "Perl Unicode Spanish" at the rate of about one
page per minute, I decided to cheat and just ask.

Using Debian etch.
I am trying to build a set of Spanish flash cards using TK, and I need to
be able to display the accented characters. I know that I need to specify
them in some unicode besides utf-8, but an example of the actual Perl code
to activate(?) and use the proper unicode table is what I can't find.
Actually, Unicode is such a big topic that as a Perl beginner I might not
recognise the answer if I managed to google it up.

Anybody?

Thanks
Dan
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