This script connects to MSSQL database, reads data and populates it in a pop-up window. Everything is working fine except that the special characters (like chinese/japanese language characters) are NOT getting displayed properly (?? are getting displayed instead). In other words, the encoding is getting lost. The special characters in the database looks fine. The html pop-up window are UTF-8 encoded. So, its the perl script thats causing the issue. Thanks in advance!! @items have the data from the database. 
my $count=0;
foreach my $row (@items)
{ 
     my $id = @$row[0];
     my $name = @$row[1];
 
     $logger->debug("INITIAL ID: $id");
     $logger->debug("INITIAL Name: $name");
     eval {Encode::from_to($name, 'utf-16le', 'utf-8', Encode::FB_CROA
+K);};
     #eval {Encode::from_to($name, 'ucs-2', 'utf-8', Encode::FB_CROAK)
+;};
 
        if ($@) {
             my $error_message = qq(Can Not Encode to UTF-8: $@);
             $logger->debug("$error_message"); # Log out $error_messag
+e
         }
 
 
print <<"END";
$name
END
$count=$count+1;
}

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