I am trying to read data produced by another program (dumptorrent) through a pipe. If I set binmode ":encoding(UTF-8)" on the pipe, data containing the character '–' is read correctly, but the character '·' is not. If I omit the binmode call, the '·' character is read correctly, but the '–' character is not. How do I read this data correctly?

Thanks

use strict;
use warnings;

my $linecount = 0;
        
open(DATA, qq(dumptorrent.exe "$ARGV[0]"|));
#binmode(DATA, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
foreach my $line (<DATA>)
{
    # Discard the 5 lines of output before the list of filenames
    if (++$linecount > 5)
    {
            chomp $line;
            last if (length($line) == 0);
            $line =~ s/^ *//;
            $line =~ s/ +\([\d.]+[KMG]\)$//; # e.g. (8.22M) present fo
+r files larger than ~1k; discard it
            my $sizeindex = rindex($line, ' ') + 1;
            my $filesize = substr($line, $sizeindex);
            # Ignore zero-length files in torrents. 
            if (defined $filesize && length($filesize) > 0 && $filesiz
+e > 0)
            {
                (my $filename = $line) =~ s/ +\d+$//;
                my $filekey = "$filename $filesize";
                print "$filekey\n";
            }
    }
}

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