#!/usr/bin/perl use Tie::File; use utf8; tie my @A, 'Tie::File', "blah.txt", recsep => "\r\n", discipline => ':encoding(UTF-8)' or die $!; $A[3] = 'Hallo'; $A[4] = 'welt'; $A[12] = 'Sehr gut Jürgen'; $A[13] = 'äüöß'; $A[14] = 'Was mache ich falsch?';