Hi I have a unciode file with some chinese text having the titles of some winodws which i have to search for. When i read the file for window title, perl is getting unicode data different from input file Below 2 snippets explains my problem

Script 1:

use Encode;
use Win32::GuiTest qw(FindWindowLike);

 open(MYFILE, '<:encoding(UTF-8)',"saml.txt") || die "cannot open: $!"
+;
 open(OUTFILE,'>:encoding(UTF-8)',"out.txt") || die "cannot open: $!";
 $WindowTitle=<MYFILE>; #reading the chinese window title from input f
+ile
 chomp($WindowTitle);
 binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
 print "$WindowTitle\n"; #===> Here perl prints out some chinese text 
+to the command console, but different from what is given in input fil
+e
 my @hwnd=Win32::GuiTest::FindWindowLike(undef,$WindowTitle);
 if($hwnd[0])
 {
    print "window found\n";
 }
 else
 {
    print "window not found\n";
 }
 
 print OUTFILE $WindowTitle; #==> Here perl prints out same chinese te
+xt as input to the outfile

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Script 2 

use Encode;
use Win32::GuiTest qw(FindWindowLike);
 $WindowTitle="V VM"; #Hardcoded the window title in chinese
 binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
 print "$WindowTitle\n"; #===> Here perl prints out some chinese text 
+to the command console, but different from what is given in input fil
+e
 my @hwnd=Win32::GuiTest::FindWindowLike(undef,$WindowTitle);
 if($hwnd[0])
 {
    print "window found\n";
 }
 else
 {
    print "window not found\n";
 }

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Script 1 reads the chinese window title from unicode file and says that window is not present though window is actually present. Script 2 has chinese window title hardcoded, hence it is giving proper output as window present. What am i doing wrong while trying to read the unicode file. Please help

In reply to Issue with reading a unicode file by cstar

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