Thank you guys for your insights. Here is the code I am using. I tried using Encode but I am getting this error message: UTF-16:Unrecognised BOM 5468 at c:/Perl/lib/Encode.pm line 164. I had no idea that Unicode::String is obsolete! is it really? 

use strict;
open (OUT, ">c:\\temp\\test.doc");
select OUT;
my $string = "Thu'a quư v\1ECB ngu'̣'i Viêt, quư v\1ECB là thành phân"
+;

#use Unicode::String qw(utf8);

#my $record_ref = utf8("$_");
#my $record = $record_ref->utf8;
#print $record;

use Encode qw(decode);

my $utf8_data = decode("UTF-16", $string);
print $utf8_data;


close OUT;
select STDOUT;
print "Finished";

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In reply to Re^2: Latin Extended Additional and Unicode::String by Anonymous Monk
in thread Latin Extended Additional and Unicode::String by Anonymous Monk

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