There are other posts similar to this, but I've not been able to find a solution. I'm trying to receive a utf8 encoded string from a perl program to a C# application, but I always get the ANSI string. The perl's print command does show the correctly encoded output, but when using the system call the output is ANSI. This works in linux, but not Windows.

If I run Example.exe "Ħis. Ŧ good" it works correctly displaying the utf8 string.

However, running the perl program does not work. Please advise. Here are sample programs. To see the correct utf8 encoding in the Windows console you have to first change the active code page with the chcp 65001 command. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use utf8;

binmode(STDOUT,':encoding(UTF-8)');
my $string= "\x{126}is. \x{166}good";
#my $string = pack('U', 294) . "is. " . pack('U', 358) . " good";

print "Sent = $string\n";

system ("Example.exe \"$string\"");

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C# app. 
using System;
using System.Text;

namespace Example
{
    class Example
    {        
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {               
            Console.WriteLine("Received " + args[0]);
            System.Environment.Exit(0);                      
        }
    }
}

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In reply to Unicode (utf8) does not pass correctly to Windos system call. by jyankel

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