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in thread how to read unicode filename

dear monks,
i saw the above link which is useful . but i have trouble in the unpack operation .
Is it possible to pack the chinese characters like,<\br> 
pack("A4",$chinese);

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the output : ascii junk.
i tried the above but that is not giving me the appropriate answer. Any one tell why that happening.

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Re^3: how to read unicode filename
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2012 at 20:15 UTC

    In Windows 7, this outputs a correct utf8 listing. 

    open fList, '-|:encoding(UTF-16LE)', 'cmd /U /C dir /W';
open fOut, '>', 'out.txt';
foreach (<fList>) {
utf8::encode($_);
print fOut $_;
}

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