#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use HTML::Entities; my $e = "\366\344"; open OUTTEMP, '>', '/root/Desktop/html.log'; binmode OUTTEMP, ':encoding(utf8)'; print OUTTEMP "some text" . encode_entities($e) . "some text\n"; close OUTTEMP; #### #!/usr/bin/perl -l use strict; use warnings; use HTML::Entities; my $e = "\366\344"; print encode_entities($e);