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Unicode filenames and Perl on Windows
Hi Paul, Thanks for the tips. I actually ended up reverting to Activestate perl 5.6, and with the -C switch, it does exactly what I needed. Installing new CPAN modules for Activestate is a real pain, but other than that minor grip I am now happy. Thanks for your time! Ron -
Unicode filenames and Perl on Windows
One more thing ... thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately File::Find also fails to process the directories that have non-standard characters in them. I believe it processes the directory structure using opendir/readdir, so it has the same limitations. Ron Miller -
Unicode filenames and Perl on Windows
Hello Paul, Thanks for the quick reply! You are right about -c ... I had meant -C which apparently caused Perl to use "Wide" functions for system interactions with the filesystem. This was removed because it caused some inconsistent behaviour with other unicode support. As far as an example... -
Unicode filenames and Perl on Windows
Hi, I am writing a perl script that loops over my directories on a Windows XP system, and some of the directories have non-ascii filenames (accented letters and some Japanese text). This seems to break many things in perl, and I was wondering if there were any workarounds. One problem I am...
