The frustration of Unicode in the Perl command-line

It's a small nit, but Perl is such an amazing command-line tool that I find it frustrating: you can't use Unicode brace-like tokens as delimiters for quote-like operators on the Perl command-line. Let me back up and explain...

"qq" is a Perl operator that's called a "quote-like operator" that does the same thing as double-quotes with two differences:

• Any token can follow it (except whitespace) and it will match up to the next occurrence (or to a matching balanced token like {} or () or []).
• If you use a balanced token after it, it will grab everything up to the next, balanced close-token, so "qq{you can put {} inside}"