diff -Naur cowsay-3.03.orig//cowsay cowsay-3.03/cowsay
--- cowsay-3.03.orig//cowsay	2011-04-21 16:36:03.581377699 +0200
+++ cowsay-3.03/cowsay	2011-04-21 16:37:07.968430100 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
 use Getopt::Std;
 use Cwd;
 
+if (${^UTF8LOCALE}) {
+    binmode STDIN, ':utf8';
+    binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
+    require Encode;
+    eval { $_ = Encode::decode_utf8($_,1) } for @ARGV;
+}
+
 $VERSION = "3.03";
 $progname = basename($0);
 $eyes = "oo";