#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(utf8)'; my $file = '/root/Desktop/russian'; open FILE, "<:utf8", $file or die $!; my (@data1) = ; close(FILE); use open(':encoding(utf8)'); open( FILE, $file ) or die "can not open $file"; my (@data2) = ; close(FILE); die "different size" if scalar @data1 != scalar @data2; while (@data1) { my $s1 = shift @data1; my $s2 = shift @data2; print "1: $s1\n2: $s2\n"; die "different data" if $s1 ne $s2; }