Good day bros. I have some URLs and page titles that contain UTF-8 chars (French and Arabix). I am trying to write them to an HTML file like so:
Use Encode;
.
.
.
open(OUT,">topurls.htm") or die "Can't open output: $!";
print OUT <<'END_HEADER';
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Top URLs</title>
                <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ch
+arset=utf-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        <h3>Top URLs</h3>
                <table cellpadding=10 border=1><tr><th>Link</th><th>Co
+unt</th><th>Users</th></tr>
END_HEADER

foreach my $u (keys %topurls) {
    my @line;
    $line[0] = '<a target="_blank" href="'.encode('UTF-8',$u).'">'.enc
+ode('UTF-8',$topurls{$u}{title}).'</a>';
    $line[1] = $topurls{$u}{count};
    $line[2] = $topurls{$u}{users};
    print OUT '<tr><td>'.join('</td><td>',@line).'</td></tr>'."\n";
}
print OUT '</table></body></html>';
close OUT;

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However in the resulting files, the characters are in the windoze charset. On the advice of a post somewhere else, I tried adding binmode(OUT,":utf8"); after the file open, no help. I also tried wrapping the encode statements in encode_entities from HTML::Entities. Also no help. How do I get these chars to output properly?

In reply to Writing HTML file with UTF-8 chars by cormanaz

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