I'm new to Perl's unicode handling, and am bemused by this: 
open(my $MASTER,'<:encoding(UTF-16LE)', 'master.cfg');
open(my $CONFIG,'>:encoding(UTF-16LE)', 'new.cfg');

while ($line=<$MASTER>) {
    print $CONFIG $line;
}

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I'm running ActivePerl 5.8.7 on Windows. new.cfg is identical to master.cfg, except that each sequence 0D 00 0A 00 (cr/lf) in the input file is being turned in 0D 00 0D 0A 00 in the output file, i.e. an extra 0D is getting inserted. Any suggestions why, and how I avoid this. Something obvious, I'm sure.

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