#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use utf8; use open OUT => ':encoding(UTF-8)', ':std'; use Encode; use Path::Tiny; my $cyrillic_utf8 = shift; my $cyrillic = decode('UTF-8', $cyrillic_utf8); my $out = path("$cyrillic.txt"); $out->spew($cyrillic); my ($in) = path('.')->children(qr/$cyrillic_utf8\.txt/); my $string = $in->slurp_utf8; print $string, "\n";