I'm writing a UTF8 file and I'm getting the UTF8 BOM which I don't want. Strange thing is that the BOM is in ISO-8859 representation. In other words it shows up as . The Unicode data being written to the file is UTF8 and as we know, you don't need a BOM with UTF8. So the question is how can I get Perl to not write the BOM. Here is a section of my program that I think is relevant to this question 

 
use utf8;
...
...
open (OUT,">:utf8", "$name") or die "cannot open file for writing";
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print OUT $_;

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My environment is Windows XP, cygwin and perl 5.10.1. Any help in printing a UTF8 file with no BOM, is much appreciated!

In reply to Don't want BOM in output file by beerman

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