Perl ActiveState was downloaded to windowsxp computer, the hello program will not run. The hello program was saved to the desktop in a folder called "perlscripts". The commands typed in the console window are as follows. cd \desktop cd \perlscripts perl hello.pl This outputs the whole hello.pl script text file instead of just "hello world". When the command "perl -w perlscipts" is run, the following error is: "panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen 47 at hello.pl line1." The command "perl -v" outputs the installation version of Perl, so I assumed it was installed alright. The "perl -h" command also outputs the list of Perl commands. The documentation states if the example.pl script did not run, there is something wrong with the installation, I assume perl was installed in the c directory named perl. I would appreciate any information on what might be wrong and how to fix it. Regards Jen

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