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in reply to pp module messes encoding

"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."

I did a quick test. I can confirm that I experienced the same problems (garbled characters and large file) as you described. For a quick solution, maybe you can try PerlApp. I did a test with PerlApp using your demo script. The executable produced by PerlApp works as expected.