perl can't read right arrow

I have a perl script that takes a DOS directory listing and formats it so each song is on one line with the corresponding data. I have a song that has a right arrow (Love → Building on Fire.mp3). My perl scripts reads up to the arrow and then doesn't read anymore of the input file. Is there something I can do to fix this.

I am running this on Windows 10 Home 21H2 19044.2251 

DOS is an old operating system and barely qualifies as an operating system. You should use Windows if possible. DOS does not handle Unicode and does not handle long file names and file extensions. The file you are asking about is not a DOS file name.

You do not give any details of what you are doing. If you can process a Windows directory listing then you might need to use Unicode, I do not know. I am not familiar with Perl. If you can use a Perl equivalent to an operating system's directory listing then that will work better. Look at Files and Directories Handling in Perl - The Perl Beginners’ Site; I do not know Perl but that looks relevant.