#!/usr/bin/perl use Encode; binmode STDIN, ":utf8"; binmode STDOUT, ":ucs-2be"; while(<>){ print encode( "ucs-2be", $_ ); } #### #!/usr/bin/perl use Encode; binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; binmode STDIN, ":ucs-2be"; while(<>){ print decode( "ucs-2be", $_ ); }