I use IO::TEE for these kinds of things. Not sure of it will fix your problem though documents say nothing about utf8.

http://search.cpan.org/~kenshan/IO-Tee-0.64/Tee.pm 

use IO::Tee; 

open my $ofh, '>>', 'LOGFILE.txt' or die "Cannot append to 'LOGFILE.tx
+t':$!";
my $tee = IO::Tee->new(\*STDOUT, $ofh); # Prints to both file and stdo
+ut
#my $tee = IO::Tee->new(\*$ofh);Prints to file only

print $tee "Opening $name";

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Worth a shot. Hope it Helps. Very nice writeup on the previous reply that was a hell of alot of work.

In reply to Re: utf8 writing by Monkomatic
in thread utf8 writing by lingaraj

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