Hi, I have the below code when run as a perl script works fine generating a word document with proper french accents. Perl Script =========== 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use XYZ;

my $x = new XYZ();
$x->gen_pb();
1;

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And the module XYZ has code like below: 
package XYZ;
sub gen_pb {
$template->process("$dir/$input",$vars, \$content, {binmode => ':encod
+ing(utf8)'} )                        || return "Template Error: " . $
+template->error();
                                
                            unlink($doc_file) if(-e $doc_file);
                        open(FHPB,">$doc_file");
                        
binmode( FHPB, ":encoding(UTF-8)" );
                        
print FHPB $content;
                        
close FHPB;
}

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But the same module when called from a CGI generates the word document but without the french accents. Perl CGI Program 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI::Application;
use XYZ;

....
my $x = new XYZ();
$x->gen_pb();

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In reply to Problem writing french accents to a word file using CGI::Application by vsdeepthi

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