use strict; use warnings; use Encode qw( is_utf8 ); use Win32::OLE (); Win32::OLE->Option ( CP => Win32::OLE::CP_UTF8 ); binmode( STDOUT, ':raw' ); my $filename = shift or die "No file specified\n"; my $dmcconverter = Win32::OLE->new('dMCScripting.Converter') or die "Can't create dMCScripting.Converter object: $!\n"; my $data = $dmcconverter->AudioProperties($filename); printf( STDERR "The UTF-8 flag for converter output is %d\n", is_utf8($data) // 0 ); print "$data"; d:\Mp3\Encode>perl -S test-ole-out.pl D:\Mp3\Encode\test1.mp3 >test1.txt The UTF-8 flag for converter output is 0 d:\Mp3\Encode>perl -S test-ole-out.pl D:\Mp3\Encode\test2.mp3 >test2.txt The UTF-8 flag for converter output is 1 Wide character in print at D:\Batch/test-ole-out.pl line 15.