So, after reading a bunch on perl2exe here at the monastery, I ask with much trepidation the following.

I have a basic less than 100 line script that has worked amazingly well. Id like to share it with my peers, but know they would disregard as soon as I said, "you need perl..."

Installed strawberry on a spare laptop, downloaded perl2exe, installed a few dependency's in CPAN, created my Icons, ran

 perl2exe -icon=My.ico my.pl

and was greeted by the sight of my.exe I got good at pressing "prt screen" and finding I needed to add 

#perl2exe_include PerlIO
#perl2exe_include Encode

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What I think I'm seeing is my.exe is choking on 

open(my $remvrfh,'<:encoding(UTF-8)',$remvr)
        or die("Can't open input file \"$remvr\":$!\n");

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so first, is #perl2exe_include Encode enough or is there anything else I need for the (UTF-8) ?

Second, my.pl was designed to be run from a batch file. In that batch file I have

 @perl "%~dp0my.pl" %*

Using the batch file, launches my.pl in a small cmd window for a brief second and life is grand.
Now, as my idea has evolved, I was thinking I could exclude the batch file completely, that the parameters or Args sent by windows to my batch (from double clicking a file.blt mapped to open with my.bat by default)would be sent to my.exe. But, thats only a hunch. I have in my .pl 

$path=abs_path($0)
$arg0="$ARGV[0]";

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So, Question 2 is,
do I need to manage the double click - bat %~dp0 and %* to my.pl differently,
and if so please respond as little as you like but at least leaving breadcrumbs or letting me know every thing you do !

In reply to Dont yell, perl2exe encoding (UTF-8) issue by enrgyxprt

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