You did not post show your code, and I refuse to speculate. It could help you to completely read http://p3rl.org/UNI which teaches about the concept of encoding in Perl. When you come to a forum, you are supposed to listen to the advice, properly answer requests for more information, and not go off orthogonally in a wild goose chase just because it seems like a good idea to you. In other words, follow the established practices or you are soon on your own again.

I'm not angry, I just do not want to waste my time as a volunteer. Note that the regulars here are experts at solving problems, but you are so unexperienced that you don't even know that cross-posting without marking the messages as crossposts is bad. Thus, you have to trust us that generally we make the right decisions. Now please kindly show your code to demonstrate the problem, or I'll eject myself from this thread.