Hi everyone

I used the pp module (this one) to convert my perl code to exe.

I wrote a simple code to extract some text from an online page with (this) WWW:Mechanize.
(The page contains Hebrew characters)
My code works gr8 as .pl but after it's converted to .exe with the pp module,
it gets a strange encoded (I think) text, that I can't understand nor convert to it's standard form.
Another weird thing is that the .exe created version of out.txt is about 4 times longer than the .pl's.

(tried & failed to convert with some functions from the utf8 pragma )

Suggestions ?
thx

My code (at least it's relevant part):

use feature 'state';
use WWW::Mechanize 'new';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
#$mech->get('http://www.google.co.il');
$mech->get('http://tv.walla.co.il/?w=/2//200//2011-05-14/1');
my $content = $mech->content( format => 'text' );

writeFile('Out.txt',$content);
print "got\n";
print $content;
print "\nand thats it\a\n";

sleep 10;


sub writeFile  #form: writeFile(path,content)
{
  my $filepath = shift;
  my $nwntnt = join("",@_);

  $nwntnt = "\x{feff}".$nwntnt; #utf8 char starter
  open(txt, ">:utf8",$filepath);
  
  print txt $nwntnt;
  close txt;
}
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