in reply to SOLVED Re: Writing HTML file with UTF-8 chars
in thread Writing HTML file with UTF-8 chars

On the second point: add binmode OUT, ":utf8";after the file open

I think is better, to use binmode OUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"; because ':encoding(UTF-8)'checks the data for actually being valid UTF-8, while ':utf8' just marks the data as UTF-8 without further checking.
Please check binmode.

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