note remiah <p> Redirect it's output to file and see that file with your browser(Firefox or something). You can know wheter it is really troubled string or it is a problem of application that you are using( terminal, excel .. and so on).<br><br> Documents for encoding ... they are not so long documents. <table border="1"> <tr> <td> <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.16.1/pod/perlunitut.pod">perlunitut</a> </td> <td> 6 pages </td> <td> Very very short overview for unicode in perl + FAQ. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)</a> </td> <td> 8 pages </td> <td> About Charcter Set, Code Page, Unicode itself. Short History of Unicode. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.16.1/pod/perluniintro.pod">perluniintro</a> </td> <td> 12 pages </td> <td> This is the first thing to read (I think). </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode">Character Encodings in Perl</a> </td> <td> 7 pages </td> <td> all-in-one doc for encoding. Written by German Author. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.16.1/pod/perlunicode.pod">perlunicode</a> </td> <td> 20 pages </td> <td> Main document of perl's unicode. Through and precise, or too much for beginner. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Unicode_UTF-8">Perl Programming/Unicode UTF-8</a> </td> <td> 15 pages </td> <td> This document explains internal encoding of Perl (N8CS, utf-8) and also describe other problems. When you stumbled with 0x80-0xFF problem, this document explains the reason. </td> </tr> </table> </p> 995405 995405