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If you want to open the file in Excel with a double mouse click rather than using the text import wizard, File::BOM will work or just add another print line to your script.

#!perl
use strict;
use utf8;
#use File::BOM(); 
#open my $fh, '>:utf8 :via(File::BOM)','output_with_bom.csv' 
#      or die "$!";

open my $fh, '>:utf8','output_with_bom.csv' or die "$!";
print $fh chr(0xFEFF); # U+FEFF is EF BB BF as utf-8
print $fh $_ for <DATA>;
close $fh;

__DATA__
a,1
b,2
Š,3
Ž,4
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poj

In reply to Re^3: Writing a .txt file for import in Excel with UTF-8 BOM by poj
in thread Writing a .txt file for import in Excel with UTF-8 BOM by bradcathey

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