Can we print UTF-8 chars in Wx::TextCtrl fields?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Hi,

I have a text field defined as:
   $self->{defs} = Wx::TextCtrl->new(
       $self->{panel},
       -1,
       "",
       wxDefaultPosition,
       [ 500, 400 ],
       wxTE_MULTILINE | wxTE_READONLY | wxVSCROLL | wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER |
         wxTE_RICH2
   );

And I am trying to set a font for it using:

   my $font = Wx::Font->new( $FontSize}, wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS, 
wxFONTSTYLE_NORMAL,
       wxFONTWEIGHT_NORMAL, 0, "Arial Unicode MS", wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM );

   my $style = Wx::TextAttr->new;
   $style->Wx::TextAttr::SetFont($font);
   $self->{defs}->SetDefaultStyle($style);

But if I print UTF-8 chars in this field, it prints squares instead of 
special UTF-8 chars (non ASCII).
Should it work this way and the text might be wrong UTF-8 encoded?

I also read in the WxPerl documentation:

""
The known font encodings are:
...
wxFONTENCODING_UTF8,            // UTF-8 Unicode encoding
""

So I tried to change wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM with wxFONTENCODING_UTF8 in the 
code above.
But this just makes WxPerl to pop up a window that tells:

""
Wx::SimpleApp: unknown encoding
No font for displaying text in encoding 'Unicode 8 bit (UTF-8)' found.Would 
you like to select a font to be used for this encoding
(otherwise the text in this encoding will not be shown correctly)?
Yes No
""

So I created another small program to find which are the available 
encodings:

use Wx ':everything';
use Data::Dump 'pp';
my $enum = Wx::FontEnumerator->new;
my @encodings = $enum->GetEncodings;
print pp \@encodings;

And the result was:

[
 "WINDOWS-1250",
 "WINDOWS-437",
 "unknown-87",
 "WINDOWS-1252",
 "WINDOWS-1255",
 "WINDOWS-1256",
 "WINDOWS-1253",
 "WINDOWS-1254",
 "WINDOWS-1257",
 "WINDOWS-1251",
 "unknown--1",
 "WINDOWS-874",
 "unknown--1",
 "WINDOWS-932",
 "WINDOWS-949",
 "unknown--1",
 "WINDOWS-936",
 "WINDOWS-950",
]

So there is no encoding that contains "UTF-8" in its name.
Does this mean that WxPerl can't print UTF-8 texts?

Or there is something else I need to do?

In the same documentation page, when describing the constructor of the 
Wx::Font object, it describes the "encoding" parameter as:

""
encoding

   An encoding which may be one of
wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM
wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT
wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1...15
wxFONTENCODING_KOI8
wxFONTENCODING_CP1250...1252
""

In this list of possible encodings appear only these items, and no one that 
includes "UTF8".

Eventually, is there an example of writing text with a certain font that 
supports UTF-8?

Thanks.

--Octavian