in reply to Dont yell, perl2exe encoding (UTF-8) issue

this sounds like a frequently asked question ; the hint is find the docs/faq ... not sure you'll find anything useful there but the question should be a common one

You can use scandeps.pl to help you help perl2exe include all the stuff that needs including

scandeps -B -V -c -C ./cache-scandeps.dat ....yourprogram.pl