I convert between UTF-16LE (not "UTF8LE" as you wrote) and ASCII or UTF-8 using pack rather simply: 

$utf16= pack "S*", unpack( "C*", $ascii ), 0;
$utf16= pack "S*", unpack( "U*", $utf8 ), 0;
$ascii= pack "C*", unpack( "S*", $utf16 ); $ascii =~ s/\0$//;
$utf8 = pack "U*", unpack( "S*", $utf16 ); $utf8  =~ s/\0$//;

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but note that this doesn't handle extra large Unicode code points (which Windows doesn't handle by default either but can be configured to support at least partially).

To feel less hackish, one would likely use the Encode module, which can probably also handle the characters in the Windows-1252 extensions to Latin-1.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Win32::API and CreateProcessWithLogonW by tye
in thread Win32::API and CreateProcessWithLogonW by slloyd

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