scratchpad VSarkiss <p>This little program works fine to convert a UTF-16 file to UTF-8: <code> #! perl use encoding "utf16", STDOUT => "utf8"; while (<>) { print } </code> But when I try to do what I think is the same thing from the command line: <code> perl -Mencoding=utf16,STDOUT,utf8 -p -e 1 < in > out </code> The resulting file is a whacked semi-utf-16 format.