Conversion from UTF-8 to windows-1256 encoding

[iman_saleh]

Hello all, I wrote the following piece of code to convert a UTF-8 text into windows-1256 encoding. I don't know why the encoding of the output file is Unicode big endian. Please if anyone can help me with that tell me where is the problem.

#-----------------------------------------------
use Unicode::UTF8simple;
$uref = new Unicode::UTF8simple;

open(IN, $ARGV[0]) or die;
open(OUT, ">$ARGV[1]") or die;

while(<IN>)
{
        $string = $uref->fromUTF8("windows-1256",$_);
        print OUT $string;
}
close(IN);
close(OUT);
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