It works for me in 5.8.8. It should work in 5.8.6 too. 

>debug in
File not found
-e100 FF FE 01 14 01 14 01 14
-rcx
CX 0000
:8
-w
Writing 00008 bytes
-q

>perl 615796.pl in out

>debug out
-rcx
CX 0009
:
-d100 l9
137A:0100  E1 90 81 E1 90 81 E1 90-81                        .........
-q

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By the way, I've had problems with using :encoding(...) and multi-byte character sets. I recommend :raw:encoding(...), but keep in mind it has the side effect of not adding/removing a CR that preceeds a LF.

In reply to Re: Converting UTF-16 files to UTF-8 by ikegami
in thread Converting UTF-16 files to UTF-8 by demerphq

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