watch hebrew?

[Yuval Hager]

if I try to run
$ watch "echo שלום123"
I just get the '123' on the page, Hebrew characters stripped.

man watch says:
>       Non-printing characters are stripped from program output.
>       Use "cat -v" as part of the  command  pipeline if you want to see
>       them. 

but if I try
$ watch "echo שלום123|cat -v"
I get something like:
M-WM-)M-WM-^\M-WM-^UM-WM-^]123

Any way to idea Hebrew characters under watch?

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yuval
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