unicoded output redirection

From: J. van der Knaap (spamzuigt_at_pastrami.be)
Date: 06/30/04

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    I've written a perl script that prints a report to STDOUT containing
    non-standard ASCII characters (a box/table). I'm quite pleased with the
    way it looks on the cli. However, when I redirect the output to a file,
    it stores it in what I assume is ANSI format. This ruins my pretty box. :(

    Would it be possible to redirect to a unicoded file?

    Alternatively I could alter the perl script to write directly to
    unicoded file, which I believe could be done by something like this:

    open FH, ">:encoding(ucs2)", "file";

    However that would mean a boatload of work I'm not looking forward to.
    So if there's a way to simply redirect to a unicoded file I'd gladly try
    that first.

    Any help, suggestions would be appreciated.

    Joost

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