use utf8; use Encode; open INPUT,"<:utf8","D:\\try_unicode\\input.txt" or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; close STDOUT; open STDOUT ,">:utf8","D:\\try_unicode\\output.doc" or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; $unpacking=; chomp($unpacking); print "\nunpacking1 :" ,decode("utf8",unpack("x4A4",$unpacking)),"\n"; print "\nunpacking2 :" ,unpack("U4A4",$unpacking),"\n"; close INPUT; close STDOUT;